"Do not try the parallels in that way: I know that way all along. I have measured that bottomless night, and all the light and all the joy of my life went out there."

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Source : Letter to János Bolyai, April 04, 1820.

Farkas Bolyai

#Science Quotes #Night Quotes #Light Quotes

“You want to dig your well where you have the best chance of finding water with the least amount of digging”
“I'll take any risk there is.”
“By rights you're a king. If I was you, I'd call for a new deal.”
“If you're on to something but you start repeating it, that's the end of your career.”
“Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.”
“I have always disliked the idea of an arts ghetto in which poetry is kept on a life-support system.”

Source : 1989 In the Observer, 23 Jul.
“It is dangerous for a national candidate to say things that people might remember.”

Source : Eugene J. McCarthy (2004). “Parting Shots from My Brittle Bow: Reflections on American Politics and Life”, p.124, Fulcrum Publishing
“The near impossible. If no one believed in the impossible there would be nothing left to dream about”

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