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Time and Free Will

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“A writer should have the precision of a poet and the imagination of a scientist.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

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“I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.”
― Benjamin Moser, Why This World: A Biography of Clarice Lispector

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“The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Crack-Up

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“Nothing is so difficult as not deceiving oneself.”
― Ludwig Wittgenstein, Culture and Value

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“Maintenant que la glace est rompue, causons." (Now the ice is broken, let's talk.)

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― Alfred Jarry

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