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Science is the only truth and it is the great lie. It knows nothing, and people think it knows everything. It is misrepresented. People think that science is electricity, automobilism, and dirigible balloons. It is something very different. It is life devouring itself. It is the sensibility transformed into intelligence. It is the need to know stifling the need to live. It is the genius of knowledge vivisecting the vital genius.

Remy de Gourmont

Women live entirely in the present, men much more in the future where nature is less well organized.

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Time does not live for them, they (girls) live in the absolute. A curious creature. But then all women are curious creatures, girls above all.

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We live less and less, and we learn more and more. Sensibility is surrendering to intelligence.

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