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"Thought is only a flash between two long nights, but this flash is everything."
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"Was it only by dreaming or writing that I could find out what I thought?"

"Each "way of thinking" has its own shape and color, which wax and wane like the moon."

"To fly as fast as thought, you must begin by knowing that you have already arrived."

"If we hope and even assume that the social question will be answered through communism, and not in this or that country but in the world, any thought of centralization must be a monstrosity."

"I always wanted to act, but I never thought it would be my profession. I thought that I'd end up doing other things, but that in the meantime I'd do plays."
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"One would have to have completely forgotten the history of science so as to not remember that the desire to know nature has had the most constant and the happiest influence on the development of mathematics."

"If nature were not beautiful, it would not be worth knowing, and if nature were not worth knowing, life would not be worth living."

"If one looks at the different problems of the integral calculus which arise naturally when one wishes to go deep into the different parts of physics, it is impossible not to be struck by the analogies existing."

"To doubt everything, or, to believe everything, are two equally convenient solutions; both dispense with the necessity of reflection."

"It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient."
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