I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.

~ Jane Austen

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It is impossible to give a clear account of the world, but art can teach us to reproduce it-just as the world reproduces itself in the course of its eternal gyrations. The primordial sea indefatigably repeats the same words and casts up the same astonished beings on the same sea-shore.

~ Albert Camus

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The philosopher seeks a generality beyond the boundaries of science, he attempts to frame a comprehensive and coherent framework of ideas within which the partial results of science may become more intelligible.

~ William Barrett

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