"The story he told me was "per sfogarsi," as Bayle loved to say; his idea was that I would not discover the real hero. I shall always believe that it was his own story under another name, and I love to believe it because it was so exactly his way of looking at things..."
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Pierre Bayle
1647 â 1706
französischer Philosoph und Schriftsteller
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