"The point of view foreigners will have of the film The Conquest isn't the same as the French public. What will interest American and international audiences is the love story between Nicolas and Cecelia that's a metaphor of today's occidental couple, namely the women in the shadows who carry their husbands into the spotlight, but the man is so absorbed with work so the woman leaves him for another man."

-- Xavier Durringer

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“I really thought that love would save us all.”
“I think and think for months and years. Ninety-nine times, the conclusion is false. The hundredth time I am right.”
“I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin - as if one should ask a gravedigger what brand of shovel he uses or whether he prefers to work at noon or in moonlight. I am interested only in the care taken, and those secret rehearsals behind it. Even if I do not understand fully what is taking place.”
“There's only one thing we can control, and that is how hard we play.”
“I do tend to feel more connected to dead writers, perhaps because they have finished their work.”

Source : "Helen Oyeyemi: 'I'm interested in the way women disappoint one another'". Interview with Liz Hoggard, www.theguardian.com. March 2, 2014.
“There is no thing as a man who does not create mathematics and yet is a fine mathematics teacher. Textbooks, course material-these do not approach in importance the communication of what mathematics is really about, of where it is going, and of where it currently stands with respect to the specific branch of it being taught. What really matters is the communication of the spirit of mathematics. It is a spirit that is active rather than contemplative-a spirit of disciplined search for adventures of the intellect. Only as adventurer can really tell of adventures.”
“He who wants to do good knocks at the gate: he who loves finds the door open.”
“I think people are universal”

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