“Sometimes I think we're alone. Sometimes I think we're not. In either case, the thought is staggering.”
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Parents are usually more careful to bestow knowledge on their children rather than virtue, the art of speaking well rather than doing well but their manners should be of the greatest concern.
When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty but when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
Only that thing is free which exists by the necessities of its own nature, and is determined in its actions by itself alone.
People love pretty much the same things best. A writer looking for subjects inquires not after what he loves best, but after what he alone loves at all.