All that I know about my life it seems I have learned in books.
God is absence. God is the solitude of man.
Ah! yes I know: those who see me rarely trust my word: I must look too intelligent to keep it.
Evil is the product of the ability of humans to make abstract that which is concrete.
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The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
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