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"That particular odyssey is now over. My mind is now at rest."
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"Oh Christ, he understood more than he wanted to right now. Give me a chance, Louis thought, and I'llunderstand myself right into the nearest mental asylum."

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"Well, some mathematics problems look simple, and you try them for a year or so, and then you try them for a hundred years, and it turns out that they're extremely hard to solve."

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"The definition of a good mathematical problem is the mathematics it generates rather than the problem itself."

"I really believed that I was on the right track, but that did not mean that I would necessarily reach my goal."

"I know it's a rare privilege, but if one can really tackle something in adult life that means that much to you, then it's more rewarding than anything I can imagine."

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"Then when I reached college I realized that many people had thought about the problem during the 18th and 19th centuries and so I studied those methods."

"I'm sure that some of them will be very hard and I'll have a sense of achievement again, but nothing will mean the same to me - there's no other problem in mathematics that could hold me the way that this one did."
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