particular quotes

It is not usually possible in a poem or a story to make the relationship between particular and universal fully explicit. Those who try to do so end up writing parables.

-John Peter Berger
  Pig Earth,'Historical  Afterward'.

Jedes geeinzelte Du ist ein Durchblick zu ihm. Durch jedes geeinzelte Du spricht das Grundwort das Ewige an. Every particularThou is a glimpse through to the eternal Thou; by means of every particularThou the primary word addresses the eternal Thou. 164

- Martin Buber
  Ich und Du (translated by R G Smith as I and Thou,1936).

Everybody is always in favour of general economy and particular expenditure.

- Sir (Robert) Anthony, 1st Earl of Avon Eden
  In the Observer,17  Jun.

Well, it's about everything in particular, isn't it?

- Dame Muriel Sarah ne  e  Camberg Spark
  Of Proust. A Far Cry from Kensington, ch.6.