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“You can close your eyes if you want. Some things are less scary.”
“Music is like a dream. One that I cannot hear.”
Conversations (January 1804)
“There are no mistakes, only happy accidents.”
“I have completely forgotten the symbolic calculus.”
Original: (de) Ich habe das symbolische Rechnen mit Stumpf und Stil verlernt.
Habilitation curriculum vitae (1919) submitted to the Göttingen Faculty, as quoted by Peter Roquette, "Emmy Noether and Hermann Weyl" (Jan. 28, 2008) extended manuscript of a talk presented at the Hermann Weyl conference in Bielefeld, September 10, 2006.
Quoted in Bernard Weintraub, "Playboy Interview: Johnny Depp," Playboy (May 2004)
Context: I do have an affinity for damaged people, in life, in roles. I don't know why. We're all damaged in our own way. Nobody's perfect. I think we are all somewhat screwy, every single one of us.
citizenship in the changing world of tomorrow.
“I will either find a way, or make one.”
Aut viam inveniam aut faciam.
Latin proverb, most commonly attributed to Hannibal in response to his generals who had declared it impossible to cross the Alps with elephants; English translation as quoted in Salesmanship and Business Efficiency (1922) by James Samuel Knox, p. 27.
“Belonging is not a fixed point but a becoming.”
Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja
“As an author, one negotiates between aesthetic will and the possibility of circulation.”
Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja
“Sometimes the plot seems like a fissure in the city, at other times like a symptom.”
Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja
Source: https://www.mundoclasico.com/articulo/45227/entrevista-intrapersonal-confrontada-omar-jerez-con-jose-baroja
On listening to an early version of Billie Jean on an iPhone
Ebony interview (2007)
“Play Mozart in memory of me— and I will hear you.”
Murmured by Chopin on his death-bed.
Source: The opera reader, Biancolli, 1953, p. 271
“Life would be tragic if it weren't funny.”
As quoted in "The Science of Second-Guessing", The New York Times (12 December 2004)
“I would rather be the hammer than the anvil”