We are two parallel lines drawn very close to each other.... So close indeed that no third line, however thin, could be drawn between them. Will the two parallel lines ever meet? Yes, In infinity. Ali Hasan! I exclaimed, had you ever dreamed that there was so much poetry and pathos and sorrow in mathematics?

My First Two Thousand Years: The Autobiography of the Wandering, Jew, Chapter XLIV (p. 218)