“Whatever doubt might rise, he knew that he was right. But the rightness was an intellectual rightness and the doubt emotional.”

—  Clifford D. Simak , book Time is the Simplest Thing

Source: Time is the Simplest Thing (1961), Chapter 3 (p. 14)

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