"Mathematics is a world created by the mind of men, and mathematicians are people who devote their lives to what seems to me a wonderful kind of play!"

-- Constance Reid

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“Do not feel safe. The poet remembers. You can kill one, but another is born. The words are written down, the deed, the date.”

Source : Czeslaw Milosz, “You Who Wronged”
“There is a sense in which I am pretty sure this makes no sense. I don't know where this is going. I don't know how it ends.”

Source : Charles Yu (2010). “How to Live Safely in a Science Fictional Universe: A Novel”, p.112, Vintage
“A picture book is a story told in two languages - word and image. And the illustration is the front door of the book.”
“Beauty endures only for as long as it can be seen; goodness, beautiful today, will remain so tomorrow.”

Source : Sappho (1988). “Poems & Fragments”, Lyle Stuart
“Each of us is responsible for everything and to every human being.”
“Despite the long-term reduction in familial roles and functions, we believe that parents are still the world's greatest experts about the needs of their own children. Virtually any private or public program that supports parents, effectively supports children. This principle of supporting family vitality seems to us preferable to any policy that would have the state provide children directly with what it thinks they need.”

Source : Kenneth Keniston, Carnegie Council on Children (1977). “All our children: the American family under pressure”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P
“Men talk of heaven, - there is no heaven but here; Men talk of hell, - there is no hell but here; Men of hereafters talk and future lives, - O love, there is no other life - but here.”
“There are moments when you feel trapped, ill at ease. A year later the same feeling can turn out to be the theme of a book.”

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