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William Faulkner Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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"It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly."

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Poet, Playwright, Novelist
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"Each one of us must carry within the proof of immortality, it cannot be given from outside of us. To be sure, everything in natureis change but behind the change there is something eternal."

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Claude Bernard Physiologist
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"A fact in itself is nothing. It is valuable only for the idea attached to it, or for the proof which it furnishes."

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