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"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."
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"We must never confuse elegance with snobbery."
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"The radiance of dignity and grace creates a profound elegance which exists whether anyone is watching or not."
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"I am from the planet of elegance."
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"What is it indeed that gives us the feeling of elegance in a solution, in a demonstration?"
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"If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!"
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"Elegance is a glowing inner peace. Grace is an ability to give as well as to receive and be thankful. Mystery is a hidden laugh always ready to surface! Glamour only radiates if there is a sublime courage & bravery within: glamour is like the moon, it only shines because the sun is there."
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"Elegance is usually confused with superficiality, fashion, lack of depth. This is a serious mistake: human beings need to have elegance in their actions and in their posture because this word is synonymous with good taste, amiability, equilibrium and harmony."
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"The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics."
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"Yes, it made sense, and was so absurdly simple that it would take a genius to think of it. And, perhaps, someone who did not expect to do it himself."
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"Repudiating the virtues of your world, criminals hopelessly agree to organize a forbidden universe. They agree to live in it. The air there is nauseating: they can breathe it."
Forbidden
"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."
Ideas
"Anyone who hasn't experienced the ecstasy of betrayal knows nothing about ecstasy at all."
Betrayal
"What I did not yet know so intensely was the hatred of the white American for the black, a hatred so deep that I wonder if every white man in this country, when he plants a tree, doesn't see Negroes hanging from its branches."
American
"To achieve harmony in bad taste is the height of elegance."
Elegance
"I recognize in thieves, traitors and murderers, in the ruthless and the cunning, a deep beauty - a sunken beauty."
Beauty
"I'm homosexual... How and why are idle questions. It's a little like wanting to know why my eyes are green."
Eye
"The fame of heroes owes little to the extent of their conquests and all to the success of the tributes paid to them."
Success
"Violence is a calm that disturbs you."
Violence
"I give the name violence to a boldness lying idle and enamored of danger."
Boldness
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