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Muriel Barbery

“But many intelligent people have a sort of bug: they think intelligence is an end in itself. They have one idea in mind: to be intelligent, which is really stupid. And when intelligence takes itself for its own goal, it operates very strangely: the proof that it exists is not to be found in the ingenuity or simplicity of what it produces, but in how obscurely it is expressed.”

Muriel Barbery, The Elegance of the Hedgehog
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog The Elegance of the Hedgehog by Muriel Barbery
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