The noblest and most fruitful work of the human intelligence is to make a clean sweep of every enforced idea - of advantages or meanings - and to go right through appearances in search of the eternal bases. (Henri Barbusse)

The noblest and most fruitful work of the human intelligence is to make a clean sweep of every enforced idea - of advantages or meanings - and to go right through appearances in search of the eternal bases.

Henri Barbusse

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