"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."

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Source : "Andrew Wiles on Solving Fermat". NOVA Interview, www.pbs.org. November 1, 2000.

Andrew Wiles

#Mind Quotes #Odyssey Quotes #Particular Quotes

“I never lose an opportunity to speak about my obsession: humankind and the environment.”
“The process of writing and directing drives you to such extremes that it's natural to feel an affinity with insanity. I approach that madness as something dangerous, and I'm afraid, but also I want to go to it, to see what's there, to embrace it. I don't know why, but I'm drawn.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“I am a Christian and I don't want there to be any confusion about what I believe or who I am.”
“The wild-flower wreath of feeling, the sunbeam of the heart.”

Source : Fitz-Greene HALLECK (1847). “The Poetical Works of F. H. Now First Collected”, p.52
“Losing an illusion makes you wiser than finding a truth.”
“As long as I know what key the solo is in, I try to kind of empty my mind and not think about anything. I just play without thinking.”
“Throw false spirituality away like a pair of old shoes.”
“We hope that the long darkness through which the Burmese people have lived may now be coming to an end.”

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