Solution Produces Black

Famous quotes containing the words solution, produces and/or black:

“To the questions of the officiously meddling police Falter replied absently and tersely; but, when he finally grew tired of this pestering, he pointed out that, having accidentally solved “the riddle of the universe,” he had yielded to artful exhortation and shared that solution with his inquisitive interlocutor, whereupon the latter had died of astonishment.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“In struggling against anguish one never produces serenity; the struggle against anguish only produces new forms of anguish.”
—Simone Weil (1909–1943)

“I could see the thing
with its black head
but there wasn’t a tear left
and the scar of my wound
was hard.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)