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“ For the fact is that disorder is the condition of the mind's fertility: it contains the mind's promise, since its fertility depends on the unexpected rather than the expected, depends on what we do not know, and because we do not know it, than what we know. ”

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Une philosophie doit etre portative.

~ Paul Valéry

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly

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God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

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Nothing is more natural than mutual misunderstanding; the contrary is always surprising. I believe that one never agrees on anything except by mistake, and that all harmony among human beings is the happy fruit of an error.

~ Paul Valéry