"The Paris Commune was first and foremost a democracy. The government was a body elected by universal suffrage."

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C. L. R. James

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“The page of my notebook was filled with many messy integrals, but all of a sudden I saw emerge a formula for counting. I had begun to calculate a quantity on the assumption that the result was a real number, but found instead that, in certain units, all the possible answers would be integers. This meant that areas and volumes cannot take any value, but come in multiples of fixed units.”

Source : Lee Smolin (2008). “Three Roads To Quantum Gravity”, p.106, Hachette UK
“That's the nature of being a parent, Sabine has discovered. You'll love your children far more than you ever loved your parents, and -- in the recognition that your own children cannot fathom the depth of your love -- you come to understand the tragic, unrequited love of your own parents.”
“Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.”
“Over time, loneliness gets inside you and doesn't go away.”
“I never think of the time I have lost. I just carry out a programme because it's there. It's mapped out for me.”
“I have come to accept that I'm a very spiritual person. However, it's interesting because part of me shies away from admitting that because I think that comes with assumptions. I think, when I was younger, I used to make judgments about people who were super spiritual. And I think it's a very personal subject.”

Source : Source: blogs.indiewire.com
“People die because they find living too painful.”

Source : "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.
“I am a book I neither wrote nor read.”

Source : Delmore Schwartz (1967). “Selected Poems (1938-1958): Summer Knowledge”, p.200, New Directions Publishing

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