The absurdity of life doesn't make it meaningless, but rather gives it a special kind of meaning.
Mathematics is not a deductive science—that's a cliché. When you try to prove a theorem, you don't just list the hypotheses and then start to reason. What you do is trial and error, experimentation, guesswork.
The truth of history is often found in its silences.
"Love and loss are two sides of the same coin; you can’t have one without the other."
