“Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing?”

— Cyrano de Bergerac

The Other World (1657)
Context: Do you say it is incomprehensible that there is nothingness in the world and that we are partly composed of nothing? Well, why not? Is not the whole world enveloped by nothingness? Since you concede that point, admit as well that it is just as easy for the world to have nothingness within as without.

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French novelist, dramatist, scientist and duelist 1619–1655

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