"If my efforts have led to greater success than usual, this is due, I believe, to the fact that during my wanderings in the field of medicine, I have strayed onto paths where the gold was still lying by the wayside. It takes a little luck to be able to distinguish gold from dross, but that is all."

-- Robert Koch

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“I suppose I have come to realize that entertainment is not easily dismissed. Beyond the meaning (of a work of art), it is important to people. Without it, lives can be dull.”
“It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure of the imagination - an inability to tolerate mistery.”
“Samsaric pleasures are like salt water, the more we indulge, the more we crave.”
“In true love there is no heart break. A broken heat means broken demands, broken expectations and broken hopes.”
“Everything we care about lies somewhere in the middle, where pattern and randomness interlace.”
“Colleges hate geniuses, just as convents hate saints.”
“The secret of living is to find a pivot, the pivot of a concept on which you can make your stand.”
“Who knows what oversensitive is, considering all there is to be sensitive to.”

Source : William Maxwell, Christopher Carduff (2008). “Later novels and stories: The château, So long, see you tomorrow, stories and improvisations, 1957-1999”

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