"There is no mystery-- that's the beauty of it. We are entirely explicable to each other, and yet we stay. What a miracle that is."

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Source : Kamila Shamsie (2005). “Broken Verses”, p.244, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Kamila Shamsie

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“Though the structures and patterns of mathematics reflect the structure of, and resonate in, the human mind every bit as much as do the structures and patterns of music, human beings have developed no mathematical equivalent to a pair of ears. Mathematics can only be "seen" with the "eyes of the mind". It is as if we had no sense of hearing, so that only someone able to sight read music would be able to appreciate its patterns and harmonies.”
“I was such a screwup when I got to the big leagues. I was a total idiot.”
“We love the night and its quiet; and there is no night that we love so well as that on which the moon is coffined in clouds.”

Source : Fitz James O'brien (2015). “The Lost Room”, p.18, Fitz James O'brien
“Poets that lasting marble seek Must come in Latin or in Greek.”

Source : "Of English Verse". Poem by Edmund Waller (1668); later published in George Gilfillan "Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham", 1857.
“I didn't write anything until I was well over 30.”
“No other religion, no other, promises new bodies, hearts, and minds. Only in the gospel of Christ do hurting people find such incredible hope.”
“I've never understood why anybody makes a big deal about mansions. It's just a house with more rooms. You still have to face yourself.”
“The Pythagoreans degrade impious men into brutes and, if one is to believe Empedocles, even into plants.”

Source : Giovanni Pico della Mirandola (1951). “Oration on the Dignity of Man”

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