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Quote by Alphonse Allais
La logique mène à tout à condition d’en sortir.
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The quote humorously limits the power of logic. It says logic may seem to lead anywhere, but only once someone “gets out of it”—that is, stops following its rules. The final phrase turns the first claim into an ironic contradiction.
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- Wikisource, transcription of Pas de bile ! (Flammarion, 1893)
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