The history of thought may be summed up in these words: it is absurd by what it seeks and great by what it finds.
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Everything that is simple is theoratically false, everything that is complicated is pragmatically useless.Paul Valery
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Books have the same enemies as people: fire, humidity, animals, weather, and their own content.
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Two dangers constantly threaten the world: order and disorder.
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At times I think and at times I am.
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