“He whom God has touched will always be a being apart: he is, whatever he may do, a stranger among men; he is marked by a sign.”

—  Ernest Renan

Oeuvres Complètes, vol. 3. L’Avenir de la Science (1890).

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French philosopher and writer 1823–1892

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