What is man? A miserable little pile of secrets.
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Antimémoires, preface (1967)Andre Malraux
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The greatness of man is great in that he knows himself to be miserable. A tree does not know itself to be miserable. It is then being miserable to know oneself to be miserable; but it is also being great to know that one is miserable. 397
Blaise Pascal
All secrets are deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.
Cory Doctorow
A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.
Antoine de Saint Exupery
None are so fond of secrets as those who do not mean to keep them; such persons covet secrets as a spendthrift covets money, for the purpose of circulation.
Charles Caleb Colton
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