“In the dark room a cloud of yellow dust flew from beneath the tool like a scatter of sparks from under the hooves of a galloping horse. The twin wheels turned and hummed. Binet was smiling, his chin down, his nostrils distended. He seemed lost in the kind of happiness which, as a rule, accompanies only those mediocre occupations that tickle the intelligence with easy difficulties, and satisfy it with a sense of achievement beyond which there is nothing left for dreams to feed on.”
Gustave Flaubert
“We come spinning out of nothingness, scattering stars like dust”
Jalal ad-Din Rumi
“He who obtains has little. He who scatters has much.”
Lao Tzu
“If you scatter thorns, don't go barefoot”
Italian Proverb
“He that scatters Thorns, let him not go barefoot”
Benjamin Franklin
“Every sentence he manages to utter scatters its component parts like pond water from a verb chasing its own tail”
Clive James
“Cast forth lightning, and scatter them: shoot out thine arrows, and destroy them.”
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