"It's your life story if you're a mathematician: every time you discover something neat, you discover that Gauss or Newton knew it in his crib."

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To be ourselves we must have ourselves – possess, if need be re-possess, our life-stories. We must “recollect” ourselves, recollect the inner drama, the narrative, of ourselves. A man needs such a narrative, a continuous inner narrative, to maintain his identity, his self.

— Oliver Sacks