If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long a…

Emile M. Cioran
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If truth were not boring, science would have done away with God long ago. But God as well as the saints is a means to escape the dull banality of truth. ✨ Tears and Saints. Book by Emile M. Cioran, 1937.
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