Yes, indeed, I know we are but vain shapes of matter but so sublime as to have invented both God and our own souls.

Yes, indeed, I know we are but vain shapes of matter but so sublime as to have invented both God and our own souls.

aphorism by Stephane Mallarme from Letter to Henri Cazalis (28 April 1866), translated by Jean-Michel Maulpoix
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