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quoted in Richard Pever, The Gods (1934, trans. 1974)
The Gods (1934, trans. 1988)
The Archbishop of Grenada, in The Adventures of Gil Blas (1715-1735)
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It is the human condition to question one god after another, one appearance after another, or better, one apparition after another, always pursuing the truth of the imagination, which is not the same as the truth of appearance.
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Alain [Emile-Auguste Chartier] (1868–1951), French philosopher. The Gods, introduction (1934, trans. 1988). . . .
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