“There is only one question. And once you know the answer to that question there are no more to ask. That one question is the Original Question. And to that Original Question there is only one Final Answer. But between that Question and its Answer there are innumerable false answers.”

47 : The Question and its Answer, p. 78.
The Everything and the Nothing (1963)

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