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“Wir mussen wissen. Wir werden wissen. (We must know. We will know.)
[Inscribed on his tomb in Gottingen.]”
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[Inscribed on his tomb in Gottingen.]”
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“A friend is a second self, so that our consciousness of a friend's existence...makes us more fully conscious of our own existence.”
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“Music is the hidden arithmetical exercise of a mind unconscious that it is calculating.”
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“Now from his breast into the eyes the ache
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms,
longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer
spent in rough water where his ship went down
under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea.
Few men can keep alive through a big serf
to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches
in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind:
and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband,
her white arms round him pressed as though forever.”
― The Odyssey
of longing mounted, and he wept at last,
his dear wife, clear and faithful, in his arms,
longed for as the sunwarmed earth is longed for by a swimmer
spent in rough water where his ship went down
under Poseidon's blows, gale winds and tons of sea.
Few men can keep alive through a big serf
to crawl, clotted with brine, on kindly beaches
in joy, in joy, knowing the abyss behind:
and so she too rejoiced, her gaze upon her husband,
her white arms round him pressed as though forever.”
― The Odyssey
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