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“When I was a kid, I would always say I would grow up and make comics. I was right about one of those things.”
― Tim Seeley

“All the colors I am inside have not been invented yet.”
― Shel Silverstein, Where the Sidewalk Ends

“However, just because something isn’t surprising doesn’t mean it’s easy to deal with.”
― Nnedi Okorafor, Binti

“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.”
― Shel Silverstein

“I don't feel that it is necessary to know exactly what I am. The main interest in life and work is to become someone else that you were not in the beginning.”
― Michel Foucault

“In most sciences one generation tears down what another has built, and what one has established another undoes. In mathematics alone each gen­eration adds a new story to the old structure.”
― Hermann Hankel

“Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.”
― Oliver Heaviside

“There was a footpath leading across fields to New Southgate, and I used to go there alone to watch the sunset and contemplate suicide. I did not, however, commit suicide, because I wished to know more of mathematics.”
― Betrand Russell

“I'm convinced that being confronted with the need for profound self-discovery so explicitly (and often early in life!) is a gift in disguise. We come out the other end wiser & truer to ourselves. ... Be kind to yourself. Discovering who you really are is an enormous task it doesn't happen overnight, nor does it happen without some hiccups along the way. Be patient, be compassionate, be vulnerable and exist loudly. And most of all - be proud!”
― Alexander Leon

“There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.”
― Voltaire

“Perfect numbers, like perfect men, are very rare.”
― René Descartes

“Sometimes carrying on, just carrying on, is the superhuman achievement.”
― Albert Camus

“It is only when the cold season comes that we know the pine and cypress to be evergreens.”
― Confucius

“One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.”
― Paulo Coelho, The Alchemist