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Truth is one, but error proliferates. Man tracks it down and cuts it up into little pieces hoping to turn it into grains of truth. But the ultimate atom will always essentially be an error, a miscalculation.
Rene Daumal
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Rene Daumal
Age: 36 †
Born: 1908
Born: March 16
Died: 1944
Died: May 21
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