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The Coast of Everything

by Guillermo Stitch (Goodreads Author)

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The MANIAC by Benjamín Labatut

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He once told me that, just as wild animals play when they are young in preparation for lethal circumstances arising later in their lives, mathematics may be, to a large extent, nothing but a strange and wonderful collection of games, an ...more

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“One of the few perks of major depression was that your lifestyle—excessive TV watching, a reluctance to bathe or brush your teeth—impressed children.”
― Eric Puchner, Last Day on Earth

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“It was that impossible thing: happiness that does not wilt to reveal the thin shoots of some new desire rising from within it.”
― George Saunders, Tenth of December

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“He once told me that, just as wild animals play when they are young in preparation for lethal circumstances arising later in their lives, mathematics may be, to a large extent, nothing but a strange and wonderful collection of games, an enterprise whose real purpose, beyond any one stated outright, is to slowly work changes in the individual and collective human psyche, as a way to prepare us for a future that nobody can imagine.”
― Benjamín Labatut, The MANIAC

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