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incompleteness

Noun

Meaning

The state of being incomplete; imperfectness; defectiveness.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Every part is disposed to unite with the whole, that it may thereby escape from its own incompleteness. Leonardo da Vinci

The biography of a writer - or even the autobiography - will always have this incompleteness. V. S. Naipaul

The true genius shudders at incompleteness - and usually prefers silence to saying something which is not everything it should be. Edgar Allan Poe

The action carries a sense of incompleteness and frustration, but not of guilt. Victorious living does not mean perfect living in the sense of living without flaw, but it does mean adequate living, and that can be consistent with many mistakes. E. Stanley Jones

Today I begin to understand what love must be, if it exists... When we are parted, we each feel the lack of the other half of ourselves. We are incomplete like a book in two volumes of which the first has been lost. That is what I imagine love to be: incompleteness in absence. Edmond de Goncourt

We don't read novels to have an experience like life. Heck, we're living lives, complete with all the incompleteness. We turn to fiction to have an author assure us that it means something. Orson Scott Card

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