Open Set Condition

Famous quotes containing the words open, set and/or condition:

    “Through open doors, the dining-room declares
    A larger loneliness of knives and glass
    And silence laid like carpet.”
    —Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    “What shall we say who have knowledge
    Carried to the heart? Shall we take the act
    To the grave? Shall we, more hopeful, set up the grave
    In the house? The ravenous grave?”
    —Allen Tate (1899–1979)

    “If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute? We will not be shipwrecked on a vain reality.”
    —Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)