"The community of mathematicians is similar to an imaginary community of musical composers whose only satisfaction is obtained by the interchange among themselves of the musical scores they compose."

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Cornelius Lanczos

#Community Quotes #Musical Quotes #Satisfaction Quotes

“A thousand trees are seen towards heaven rising, With beautiful and sweetly-scented apples; The orange, wearing on its lovely fruit The colour Daphne carried in her hair; Bent low, nay almost fallen to the ground, The citron, heavy with its yellow load; And, last, the graceful lemon with its fruit Of pleasant smell and shaped like virgins' breasts.”
“When I see beautiful clothes, I want to keep them, preserve them... Clothes, like architecture and art, reflect an era.”
“Why try to be someone you're not? Life is hard enough without adding impersonation to the skills required.”
“Certain books come to meet me, as do people.”
“I actually enjoy that I never really needed to be hanging out with every celebrity in Hollywood; I just go home and hang out with my cousins, my best friends. I'm not treated like royalty; they love me to death, but they don't treat me like royalty. So it's easy for me; they'll tell me the truth, whether it hurts or not. And I need that; I've always been given that.”
“I played so perfect, I couldn't play more perfect.”
“Mr Hemingway does it extremely well. Nothing matters. Everything happens. One wants to keep oneself loose. Avoid one thing only: gettng connected up. Don't get connected up. If you get held by anything, break it. Don't be held. Break it, and get away. Don't get away with the idea of getting somewhere else. Just get away, for the sake of getting away. Beat it! "Well, boy, I guess I'll beat it." Ah, the pleasure in saying that”
“When the guys come back in from the spacewalk, there really is a distinct smell of space; it's something I will never forget.”

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