Experience is always seeking for special literary forms in which its various aspects can find their most adequate expression; and there are many of t… - Logan Pearsall Smith

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Experience is always seeking for special literary forms in which its various aspects can find their most adequate expression; and there are many of these aspects which are best rendered in a fragmentary fashion, because they are themselves fragments of experience, gleams and flashes of light, rather than the steady glow of a larger illumination.

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About Logan Pearsall Smith

Logan Pearsall Smith (October 18, 1865 – March 2, 1946) was an American-born British essayist and critic. Harvard and Oxford educated, he was known for his aphorisms and epigrams, and was an expert on 17th century divines.

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Alternative Names: Lloyd Logan Pearsall Smith
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