Georg Christoph LichtenbergWhen a book and a head collide and a hollow sound is heard, must it always have come from the book?
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The book in this sentence is not the one that has the answer, but the one that is the question. If the book has an answer, it would have been found out already by now. But if it is asking a question, well, then it remains to be answered.
Source: The Waste Books
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