“Do not close the circle. Leave it open. Descartes closes the circle. Pascal leaves it open. Rousseau's triumph over the encyclopedists is to have left his circle open when they closed theirs.”
Diary of an Unknown (1988)
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“I am as excited as in my first show. There the circle closes itself. The Devil's circle.”
Ich bin so aufgeregt wie in meiner ersten Sendung. Da schließt sich der Kreis. Der Teufelskreis.
On the last Anke Late Night show (21 October 2004)

"Tentative (First Model)" Definitions of Poetry" in Complete Poems (1950)

“The circle of knowledge commences close round a man and thence stretches out concentrically.”
Evening Hour of a Hermit (1780)

“When one door is closed, many more is open.”
Coming in from the Cold, from the album Confrontation
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Small Houses: Their Economic Design and Construction (1922)