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1 " His way had therefore come full circle, or rather had taken the form of an ellipse or a spiral, following as ever no straight unbroken line, for the rectilinear belongs only to Geometry and not to Nature and Life. "
― Hermann Hesse , The Glass Bead Game
2 " Man is not a circle with a single center; he is an ellipse with two focii. Facts are one, ideas are the other. "
― Victor Hugo , Les Misérables
3 " The orbit of every planet is an ellipse with the sun at one of the two foci. "
― Johannes Kepler
