“In the fields of observation chance favours only the prepared mind.”
Quotes for When You Need Peace · Page 90
Serene words to slow down your world and bring you back to stillness.
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“There does not exist a category of science to which one can give the name applied science.”
“The human spirit, driven by an invincible force, will never cease to ask: What is beyond?”
“There is nothing to answer: there are spaces, times or magnitudes without limits.”
“If perchance you should falter during the journey, a hand would be there to support you.”
“All you have to do is write one true sentence. Write the truest sentence you know.”
“Man is not made for defeat. A man can be destroyed but not defeated.”
“Now is no time to think of what you do not have. Think of what you can do with what there is.”
“A writer should write what he has to say and not speak it.”
“You can write any time people will leave you alone and not interrupt you.”
“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”
“The hardest thing to do is to write straight honest prose on human beings.”
“No, that is the great fallacy: the wisdom of old men. They do not grow wise. They grow careful.”
“Prose is architecture, not interior decoration, and the Baroque is over.”