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“ It was as if a tiny crack had opened somewhere in him and was growing, tearing him to pieces. If he had simply been angry, I might have found a way to calm him, but I had no idea how to put him back together once he came apart. ”

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Since that time, I've had many similar moments, and I can never hear the words family and home without feeling that they sound strange, never simply hear them and let them go. When I stop to examine them, though, the words seem hollow, seem to rattle at my feet like empty cans.

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Math has proven the existence of God, because it is absolute and without contradiction; but the devil must exist as well, because we cannot prove it

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He preferred smart questions to smart answers.

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Soon after I began working for the Professor, I realized that he talked about numbers whenever he was unsure of what to say or do. Numbers were also his way of reaching out to the world. They were safe, a source of comfort.

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