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― Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
― Chuang Tsu: Inner Chapters
“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent.”
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
― Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus
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― Ulysses
― Ulysses
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― If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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