"Speech may be barren; but it is ridiculous to suppose that silence is always brooding on a nestful of eggs."

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If we concentrate our attention on trying to solve a problem of geometry, and if at the end of an hour we are no nearer to doing so than at the beginning, we have nevertheless been making progress each minute of that hour in another more mysterious dimension. Without knowing or feeling it, this apparent barren affort has brought more light into the soul.

— Simone Weil