“Good resolutions are useless attempts to interfere with scientific laws. Their origin is pure vanity. Their result is absolutely nil. They give us, now and then, some of those luxurious sterile emotions that have a certain charm for the weak. That is all that can be said for them. They are simply cheques that men draw on a bank where they have no account.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.”
― Oliver Twist
― Oliver Twist
“Childhood isn't just those years. It's also the opinions you form about them afterward. That's why our childhoods are so long.”
― Green Mars
― Green Mars
“Is not general incivility the very essence of love?”
― Pride and Prejudice
― Pride and Prejudice
“God exists since mathematics is consistent, and the Devil exists since we cannot prove it.”
― Fermat’s Last Theorem: The compelling biography and history of mathematical intellectual endeavour
― Fermat’s Last Theorem: The compelling biography and history of mathematical intellectual endeavour
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