Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, t — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, t — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, t — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, t — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, t — Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
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Pride makes us long for a solution to things – a solution, a purpose, a final cause; but the better telescopes become, the more stars appear.

— Julian Barnes, Flaubert's Parrot
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