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"If a person holds no ambitions in this world, he suffers unknowingly. If a person holds ambitions, he suffers knowingly, but very slowly."

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About Alan Lightman

Alan Lightman is an American physicist, novelist, and essayist known for Einstein"s Dreams and writing at the intersection of science and humanities.

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