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But that which fanaticism formerly promised to the elect, science now accomplishes for all men.

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A friend who dies, it's something of you who dies.

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Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry.

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Then they wondered if there were men in the stars. Why not? And as creation is harmonious, the inhabitants of Sirius ought to be huge, those of Mars m...more

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Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.

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She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, b...more

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Is it not time to cry that the blind shall see, the deaf hear, the lame walk? But that which fanaticism formerly promised to its elect, science now ac...more