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"The pages are still blank, but there is a miraculous feeling of the words being there, written in invisible ink and clamoring to become visible."

"The more gifted and talkative one's characters are, the greater the chances of their resembling the author in tone or tint of mind."

"I think it is all a matter of love: the more you love a memory, the stronger and stranger it is."

"I would like to spare the time and effort of hack reviewers and, generally, persons who move their lips when reading."

"A novelist is, like all mortals, more fully at home on the surface of the present than in the ooze of the past."
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"You can not apply mathematics as long as words still becloud reality."

"Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers."

"The square root of I is I."

"I finally reached the conclusion that mathematics was the study I was best fitted to follow, though I did not clearly see in what way I should turn the subject to account."

"Everyone knows what a curve is, until he has studied enough mathematics to become confused through the countless number of possible exceptions."

"We are servants rather than masters in mathematics."

"My mathematics is simple: one plus one = one."

"I have in later years taken to Euclid, Whitehead, Bertrand Russell, in an elemental way."

"In my schooling through high school, I excelled mainly in chemistry, physics and mathematics."
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