Sylvain Bérubé

“J'aimais sa présence. J'aimais être avec lui même si j'avais compris que nous n'aurions pas de sexe torride. J'aimais sa façon de me toucher. De me regarder. Personne n'a eu d'orgasme ce soir-là. Ç'a été difficile de m'extraire de ses bras.”
― Maude Veilleux, Prague

“Most people have some appreciation of mathematics, just as most people can enjoy a pleasant tune; and there are probably more people really interested in mathematics than in music. Appearances suggest the contrary, but there are easy explanations. Music can be used to stimulate mass emotion, while mathematics cannot; and musical incapacity is recognized (no doubt rightly) as mildly discreditable, whereas most people are so frightened of the name of mathematics that they are ready, quite unaffectedly, to exaggerate their own mathematical stupidity”
― G.H. Hardy, A Mathematician's Apology

“Nous avons vécu des moments inoubliables. Charles-Antoine, notre petit trésor, sera toujours présent auprès de nous. La vie continue. Elle est belle cette vie. Elle sera bonne pour nous. J'en suis convaincu.”
― François Bérubé, La rencontre de notre ange Charles-Antoine

“Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley.”
― Yoko Ogawa, The Housekeeper and the Professor