I used to love mathematics for its own sake, and I still do, bcause it allows for no hypocrisy and no vagueness, my two betes noires.
Stendhal (henri Beyle) quote A novel is a mirror which passes over a highway. Sometimes it reflects to your eyes the blue of the skies, at others the churned-up mud of the road (Le rouge et le noir)
Stendhal (henri Beyle) quote Biography
French Novelist 1783 - 1842