Quoting Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, Ch. Barcelona and Madrid, 1939, Ukemi (2016 edition)

You can classify men as men from the right and men from the left, hunchbacks and non-hunchbacks, fascists and democrats. And these distinctions are unassailable, but the truth you know, is that which simplifies the world and not that which creates chaos. The truth is the language that identifies the world. […] The truth is not that which explains, it is that which simplifies.
— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, Wind, Sand, and Stars, Ch. Barcelona and Madrid, 1939, Ukemi (2016 edition)

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