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but he couldn’t take his words back. Those were mine now.
“War der Mensch bei seiner Geburt eine tabula rasa, ungeformt und ohne Ideen, bereit, von der Gesellschaft beschrieben zu werden, erziehbar und imstande, auf dem Weg zur Vervollkommnung voranzuschreiten? Oder stellte die Gesellschaft, wie Rousseau behauptete, einen verderblichen Einfluss dar und nicht das Fundament alles Richtigen und Guten?”
― Das wilde Kind
― Das wilde Kind
“One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple.”
― The Dharma Bums
― The Dharma Bums
“Better that one heart be broken a thousand times in the retelling, he has decided, if it means that a thousand other hearts need not be broken at all.”
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“I now know that some people feel unhappiness the way others love: privately, intensely, and without recourse.”
― And the Mountains Echoed
― And the Mountains Echoed
“Nothing limits intelligence more than ignorance; nothing fosters ignorance more than one's own opinions; nothing strengthens opinions more than refusing to look at reality.”
― The Visitor
― The Visitor
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