“A throw of the dice will never abolish chance.”

— Stéphane Mallarmé , Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard

Un Coup de Dés Jamais N'Abolira Le Hasard
Title of poem (1897), as quoted in Mallarmé's Un coup de dés : An Exegesis (1949) by Robert Greer Cohn.
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French Symbolist poet 1842–1898

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