# Quote — William Boyd, Brazzaville Beach

> It seems to me that there are statements about the world and our lives that have no need of formal proof procedures.

- Author: [William Boyd](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd.md)
- Book: [Brazzaville Beach](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/brazzaville-beach.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/William_Boyd_(writer)#Brazzaville_Beach_(1990)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/brazzaville-beach/it-seems-to-me-that

## More from this book

> The natural world is full of irregularity and random alteration, but in the antiseptic, dust-free, shadowless, brightly lit, abstract realm of the mathematicians they like their cabbages spherical, please.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/william-boyd/brazzaville-beach/the-natural-world.md)