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If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.
Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern
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- Albert Camus
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- Approximate author period: c. 1936 AD · modern
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