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“Intellectual discourse and investigation is admittedly great fun but only truly meaningful when conducted in the service of others.”

Quote by Sergio De La Pava

Book:A Naked Singularity: A Novel

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A Naked Singularity: A Novel

This novel delves into the lives of individuals and the broader implications of scientific discoveries, weaving together a tapestry of human experience with cosmic phenomena. more

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Sergio De La Pava

Sergio De La Pava is an American novelist born in 1970. His works are known for their unique narrative style and profound social commentary. more

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Book:A Naked Singularity: A Novel

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“There's a manner of speaking you use while lawyering. A manner as affected and rife with artifice as your average campaign speech, with a similar fear of offending.”

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“The world's great men have not commonly been great scholars, nor its great scholars great men.”

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“I was terrified as only grown men and women can be when they wake in the middle of the night and begin to realize, in the absolute silence and solitude all around them, that it is not only their dream that has woken them, that it is their whole way of life.”

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“And if all womankind banded together and took the male path, the world would turn into one huge brothel.”

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“Velázquez, past the age of fifty, no longer painted specific objects. He drifted around things like the air, like twilight, catching unawares in the shimmering shadows the nuances of color that he transformed into the invisible core of his silent symphony.”

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