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I still understand a few words in life, but I no longer think they make a sentence.
If a given scientist had not made a given discovery, someone else would have done so a little later. Johann Mendel dies unknown after having discovered the laws of heredity: thirty-five years later, three men rediscover them. But the book that is not written will never be written. The premature death of a great scientist delays humanity; that of a great writer deprives it.
The divine is perhaps that quality in man which permits him to endure the lack of God.
Renown? I've already got more of it than those I respect, and will never have as much as those for whom I feel contempt.
A man is not old as long as he is seeking something.
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