You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood. (Nicolas Malebranche)

You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.

Nicolas Malebranche

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