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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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"The only thing I was trying to portray was serenity. Also, innocence, vulnerability and elegance."
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"What we need is hatred. From it our ideas are born."
Ideas

"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

"Would Hamlet have felt the delicious fascination of suicide if he hadn't had an audience, and lines to speak?"
Suicide

"A man must dream a long time in order to act with grandeur, and dreaming is nursed in darkness."
Time

"The main object of a revolution is the liberation of man... not the interpretation and application of some transcendental ideology."
Revolution

"A great wind swept over the ghetto, carrying away shame, invisibility and four centuries of humiliation. But when the wind dropped people saw it had been only a little breeze, friendly, almost gentle."
People

"Anyone who knows a strange fact shares in its singularity."
Fact
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