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In some remote corner of the universe, poured out and glittering in innumerable solar systems, there once was a star on which clever animals invented knowledge. That was the highest and most mendacious minute of "world history" -- yet only a minute. After nature had drawn a few breaths the star grew cold, and the clever animals had to die.
One might invent such a fable and still not have illustrated sufficiently how wretched, how shadowy and flighty, how aimless and arbitrary, the human intellect appears in nature. There have been eternities when it did not exist; and when it is done for again, nothing will have happened.
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    Posted by: Paola Melone
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    Who are you that, even if blind and deaf, talks so eloquently to dry your tongue?
    - I'm ingorance. I don't need to see or talk, to open my mouth. And who are you, that even having eyes to see and ears to listen, you don't have my oratory and often fall into silence?
    Knowledge didn't answer.
    Written on monday august 20, 2012
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