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| 30e633d | The negation of severe suffering was the nearest approach to happiness I expected to know. Besides, I seemed to hold two lives - the life of thought, and that of reality. | happiness negation suffering | Charlotte Brontë | |
| 03129f5 | And when someone suggests you believe in a proposition, you must first examine it to see whether it is acceptable, because our reason was created by God, and whatever pleases our reason can but please divine reason, of which, for that matter, we know only what we infer from the processes of our own reason by analogy and often by negation. | critical-reasoning inference negation proposition reason | Umberto Eco |