"It was far too absurd to die of a Tuesday"

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Source : Jamie O'Neill (2002). “At Swim, Two Boys: A Novel”, p.458, Simon and Schuster

Jamie O'Neill

#Tuesday Quotes #Absurd Quotes #Dies Quotes

“The stream of knowledge is heading towards a non-mechanical reality; the universe begins to look more like a great thought than like a machine. Mind no longer appears to be an accidental intruder into the realm of matter...we ought rather hail it as the creator and governor of the realm of matter.”

Source : Sir James Hopwood Jeans (2017). “The Mysterious Universe [New Revised Edition]”, p.125, Pickle Partners Publishing
“Woman, in short, has an unconscious life, man a conscious life, and the genius the most conscious life.”

Source : Otto Weininger (1906). “Sex & Character”, p.113, Рипол Классик
“It has been said that no great work in literature or in science was ever wrought by a man who did not love solitude. We may lay it down as an elemental principle of religion, that no large growth in holiness was ever gained by one who did not take time to be often long alone with God.”

Source : AUSTIN PHELPS (1860). “THE STILL HOUR”, p.93
“A designer without a sense of history is worth nothing”
“In the history of each sport, the heroes who win the Olympic gold medal are the ones we remember. Nobody remembers the World Champion 25 years ago, but everyone remembers who the Olympic Champions were, even 100 years ago.”
“A book is a souvenir of an idea.”
“What is history? Its beginning is that of the centuries of systematic work devoted to the solution of the enigma of death, so that death itself may eventually be overcome. That is why people write symphonies, and why they discover mathematical infinity and electromagnetic waves.”
“The only limit to your impact is your imagination and commitment.”

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