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is always vulgar... one ought to absorb the color of life, but one ought never to remember its details.

One should absorb the colour of life, but one should never remember its details. Details are always vulgar. Oscar Wilde

is how we come to know the world. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

If a writer stops observing he is finished. Experience is communicated by small details intimately observed.

 makes stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

Details make stories human, and the more human a story can be, the better.

is that by which man fritters away his life. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!. . . . Henry David Thoreau

is never insignificant : The grain, the shape of the feet, the color and age of the wood, as well as the scratches or graffiti which show that age. The meaning 'table' is of interest only insofar as it arises out of all the 'details' which embody its present mode of being.

No detail is insignificant: the grain, the shape of the feet, the colour and age of the wood, as well as the scratches or graffiti which show that age. The meaning, 'table', will only interest me insofar as it arises out of all the 'details' which embody its present mode of being. (Merleau-ponty 'world of perception' :94)

is often crucial. Sometimes a single gesture comprises an entire drama, just as the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion.

Sometimes, one gesture comprises an entire drama, the accent of one word ruins an entire existence, and the indifference of one glance kills the happiest passion. Honore de Balzac

is not to be overlooked. The little things are infinitely the most important.

It has long been an axiom of mine that the little things are infinitely the most important. Arthur Conan Doyle

is not to be overlooked. To a great mind, nothing is little.

To a great mind, nothing is little,' remarked Holmes, sententiously. Arthur Conan Doyle

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