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To know what everyone knows is to know nothing.
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Man, in spite of his tendency towards mendacity, has a great respect for what he calls the truth. Truth is his staff in his voyage through life; commonplaces are the bread in his bag and the wine in his jug.
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God is not all that exists. God is all that does not exist.
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Born of the sensibility, art sows and creates life in its turn.
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Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.
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Intelligence, that sublimation of the sensibility, that organ of the need to know, is sterilized sensibility.
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Good books are irrefutable, and bad books refute themselves.
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Man is the inventor of stupidity.
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For two thousand years Christianity has been telling us: life is death, death is life; it is high time to consult the dictionary.
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