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“I tell you: one must still have chaos in oneself, to give birth to a dancing star. I tell you: you have still chaos in yourselves.”
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“Nobody ever figures out what life is all about, and it doesn't matter. Explore the world. Nearly everything is really interesting if you go into it deeply enough.”
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“I have broken the machine and touched the ghost of matter.”
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“The world is greater than that -- I smile
and I think of my hilarity as a covey
in flight from a house collapsing.
Lose yourself if you wish to find yourself; desire
so as not to have.”
― In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis and Other Poems.
and I think of my hilarity as a covey
in flight from a house collapsing.
Lose yourself if you wish to find yourself; desire
so as not to have.”
― In the Dark Body of Metamorphosis and Other Poems.
“Is then mathematics a collection of diamonds hidden in the depths of the universe and gradually unearthed, or is it a collection of synthetic stones manufactured by man, yet so brilliant nevertheless that they bedazzle those mathematicians who are already partially blinded by pride in their own creations?”
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