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You cannot be cheated, you cannot be lied to. A thing is true or not true, and there is this notion of clarity on which you can base yourself.

— Sylvia Serfaty

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It’s really beautiful to observe, as you progress in your mathematical maturity, how everything is somehow connected.

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