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Marie Anne du Deffand: I hear nothings,...

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I hear nothings, I speak nothings, I take interest in nothing and from nothing to nothing I travel gently down the dull way which leads to becoming nothing.

Source: Letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert, 7 Jul 1763; in Correspondance Inedite, 1859.
-- Marie Anne du Deffand, ( 1697-1780), French intellectual;


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