What are mortals for?-Their business is to know. Know? And what is to know?-It is assuredly: not to be what one is.-And so here are humans raving and thinking, introducing into nature the principle of unlimited error, and myriads of marvels! (Paul Valéry)

What are mortals for?-Their business is to know. Know? And what is to know?-It is assuredly: not to be what one is.-And so here are humans raving and thinking, introducing into nature the principle of unlimited error, and myriads of marvels!

Paul Valéry

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