The Thinking Reed
by Rebecca West
published
March 5th 1985
by Penguin (Non-Classics)
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Paperback, 431 pages
isbn
0140073213
(isbn13: 9780140073218)
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"''Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature; but he is a thinking reed. The entire universe neet not arm itself to crush him. A vapour, a drop of water suffices to kill him. But if the universe were to crush him, man would still be more noble than that which killed him, because he knows that he dies and the advantage which the universe has over him; the universe knows nothing of this."
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