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"It is above all the language for expressing these truths that have not yet been found."
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"Joubert had this gift. He never wrote a book. He only prepared to write one, resolutely seeking the exact conditions that would allow him to write it. Then he forgot even his plan."
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Joseph Joubert
Joseph Joubert
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Joseph Joubert was a French moralist and essayist, remembered today largely for his Pensées (Thoughts), which were published posthumously.
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"Think nothing outside their paper."
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"When you write easily, you always think you have more talent than you really do."
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"Half myself mocks the other half."
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"I do not call reason that brutal reason which crushes with its weight what is holy and sacred; that malignant reason which delights in the errors it succeeds in discovering; that unfeeling and scornful reason which insults credulity."
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"It is better to be concerned with being than with nothingness. Dream therefore of what you still have rather than what you have lost."
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