“Archimedes will be remembered when Aeschylus is forgotten, because languages die and mathematical ideas do not. “Immortality” may be a silly word, but probably a mathematician has the best chance of whatever it may mean.”
― A Mathematician's Apology
― A Mathematician's Apology
“I felt total bad about it, and empty. Granpa said he knew how I felt, for he was feeling the same way. But Granpa said everything you lost which you had loved give you that feeling. He said the only way round it was not to love anything, which was worse because you would feel empty all the time.”
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“We lose ourselves in what we read, only to return to ourselves, transformed and part of a more expansive world.”
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“How could I have ever been ashamed of loving Dante Quintana?”
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
― Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe
“To love is to suffer and there can be no love otherwise.”
― Notes from Underground
― Notes from Underground
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