The less conventional-minded you are, the less it probably seems to you worth bothering even to try to express your opinions.
Reading Gauss' letters, in which he reveals his profound love for and happiness with Johanna, and his vast grief at her loss, is agony.
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Gauss was a masterful, wrenching poet of soul-searing trauma. As eloquent and poignant as Goethe in THE SORROWS OF YOUNG WERTHER.
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It is hard to blame Gauss for withdrawing from humanity after the tremendous blow he suffered. He sought succor in the only refuge he knew.
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