"Rigour is to the mathematician what morality is to men."

-- Andre Weil

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“The largely objective character of beauty is further indicated by the fact that to a considerable extent beauty is the expression of health. A well and harmoniously developed body, tense muscles, an elastic and finely toned skin, bright eyes, grace and animation of carriage- all these things which are essential to beauty are the conditions of health.”
“I'm truly an outsider in the poetry world. When I started writing, I was trying to move my poems away from modernist lines.”
“I'd rather have an inch of a dog than miles of pedigree.”
“We talked about and that has always been a puzzle to me why American men think that success is everything when they know that eighty percent of them are not going to succeed more than to just keep going and why if they are not why do they not keep on being interested in the things that interested them when they were college men and why American men different from English men do not get more interesting as they get older.”
“Of all the things I've done, the most vital is coordinating those who work with me and aiming their efforts at a certain goal.”
“Feydeau's one rule of playwriting: Character A: My life is perfect as long as I don't see Character B. Knock Knock. Enter Character B.”
“Remember the quiet wonders. The world has more need of them than it has for warriors.”

Source : "Moonheart". Book by Charles de Lint, 1994.
“No attempt must be made to encase man, for it is his destiny to be set free.”

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