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“I felt that the success of the enterprise was in my hands: the moment had an obscure meaning which had to be trimmed and perfected ; certain motions had to be made, certain words spoken : I staggered under the weight of my responsibility. I started and saw nothing, I struggled in the midst of rites which were invented on the spot and tore them to shreds with my strong arms. At those times she hated me.”
― Jean-Paul Sartre

“The goal of mathematics is the symbolic comprehension of the infinite with human, that is finite, means.”
― Hermann Weyl

“Most people don't die until the last moment; others start twenty years in advance, sometimes more. Those are the unfortunates.”
― Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of the Night

“It is likely I will die next to a pile of things I was meaning to read.”
― Lemony Snicket