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On top of that, insufferable vanity has convinced humans that nature has been made only for them, as though the sun, a huge body four hundred and thirty-four times as large as the earth, had been lit only to ripen our crab apples and cabbages.

— Cyrano de Bergerac The Other World (1657)

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You are now bearing the punishment for the shortcomings of your world. Here, as in your world, there are benighted people who cannot tolerate thinking about things they are not accustomed to.

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Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing?

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Most men judge only by their senses and let themselves be persuaded by what they see.

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I will prove that there are infinite worlds in an infinite world.

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Even if a king defeats his enemy in battle, that still doesn't settle anything. There are other, less numerous armies of philosophers and scientists, and their contests determine the true triumph or defeat of nations.

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