Quotes About Correspondence

Idle to imagine falling in love as a correspondence of mind, of thoughts; it is the simultaneous firing of two spirits engaged in the autonomous act of growing up.

Mathematics compares the most diverse phenomena and discovers the secret analogies that unite them.

Therefore to the same natural effects we must, as far as possible, assign the same causes.

Therefore, the causes assigned to natural effects of the same kind must be, so far as possible, the same.

Analogue. A part or organ in one animal which has the same function as another part or organ in a different animal.

Meaning comes from the correspondence between the code and its execution, and the compact underlying structure of the world and its dynamics.

September 22nd. [1860] (To Mrs. M. J. Green) Your kind congratulatory letter of August was received in due course, and should have been answered sooner. The truth is I have never corresponded much with ladies; and hence I postpone writing letters to them, as a business which I do not understand. I can only say now I thank you for the good opinion you express of me, fearing, at the same time, I may not be able to maintain it through life.

Dissident state or company employees in the Congo could not easily write to Morel directly, for a cabinet noir, or censorship office, in Boma monitored their correspondence.

Thy tongue sounds in accordance with thy form. (Vulcan)

Like will draw like.

If people can write to each other across space, why can they not write across time too?

If it is I who determine where God is to be found, then I shall always find a God who corresponds to me in some way, who is obliging, who is connected with my own nature. But if God determines where he is to be found, then it will be in a place which is not immediately pleasing to my nature and which is not at all congenial to me. This place is the Cross of Christ.

Unfortunately I'm not on the same wavelength as Maria yet in the literary sphere. She writes me such good, natural letters, but she reads…Rilke, Bergengruen, Binding, Wiechert; I regard the last three as being below our level and the first as being decidedly unhealthy.

That letter you wrote

They used to send each other letters. The return address was always the same: Dept. of Speculation.

Minds of equivalent quality think alike.

My first letter to Rolian had opened a floodgate, however, and the Roulaini king had begun writing me other letters, rather admiring ones. Marta and Alle, our assistant, were teasing me about having a second royal suitor. But

I found the actual notes that Prendergast sent to Alfred Trude. I saw how deeply the pencil dug into the paper.

In this time when writing long letters was everyday practice, men of normal sensibility saw these cards as the most crabbed of media, little better than telegrams

Don't you like to write letters? I do because it's such a swell way to keep from working and yet feel you've done something.

epistolary friendship

She forwarded it to Vera

I have no distributor... it is indicative to me that there are these pockets of players and collectors all over. You should see the correspondence I get from over the world letting me know how significant they think I am. I know that wherever I go, I am well received.

I have an almost entirely written correspondence with a few friends of mine who are really busy. We exchange quite long and sometimes quite whimsical, sometimes quite meaningful, sometimes silly letters.