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  1. How did they meet? By chance, like everybody ... Where did they come from? From the nearest place. Where were they going? Do we know where …
  2. The first promise exchanged by two beings of flesh was at the foot of a rock that was crumbling into dust; they took as witness for their c…
  3. Jacques said that his master said that everything good or evil we encounter here below was written on high.
  4. Gaiety - a quality of ordinary men. Genius always presupposes some disorder in the machine.
  5. There is not a Musselman alive who would not imagine that he was performing an action pleasing to God and his Holy Prophet by exterminating…
  6. Good music is very close to primitive language.
  7. The most dangerous madmen are those created by religion, and ... people whose aim is to disrupt society always know how to make good use of…
  8. The infant runs toward it with its eyes closed, the adult is stationary, the old man approaches it with his back turned.

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