"Now ... the basic principle of modern mathematics is to achieve a complete fusion [of] 'geometric' and 'analytic' ideas."

-- Jean Dieudonne

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“Beyond the wounds of the child and the scars of the man, there is something in the heart of love itself that makes love pathetic.”

Source : Philip Rieff (1979). “Freud: The Mind of the Moralist”, p.164, University of Chicago Press
“I wondered about the explorers who'd sailed their ships to the end of the world. How terrified they must have been when they risked falling over the edge; how amazed to discover, instead, places they had seen only in their dreams.”
“It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.”
“The piano is able to communicate the subtlest universal truths by means of wood, metal and vibrating air.”
“How strangely do we diminish a thing as soon as we try to express it in words.”

Source : Maurice Maeterlinck (2015). “The Treasure of the Humble: Works of Maeterlinck”, p.20, 谷月社
“Sometimes I'm confused by what I think is really obvious. But what I think is really obvious obviously isn't obvious...”
“My job is to be a spokesman - the spokesman, I suppose - for the President, for the White House, to do the daily briefings, to manage the press corps in terms of travel, day-to-day needs, access, interviews, all those issues.”
“Write what you care about.”

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