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“All existence seemed to be based on duality, on contrast. Either one was a man or one was a woman, either a wanderer or sedentary burgher, either a thinking person or a feeling person-no one could breathe in at the same time as he breathed out, be a man as well as a woman, experience freedom as well as order, combine instinct and mind. One always had to pay for one with the loss of the other, and one thing was always just as important and desirable as the other.”
― Narcissus and Goldmund
― Narcissus and Goldmund
“I constantly sought knowledge and truth, and it became my belief that for gaining access to the effulgence and closeness to God, there is no better way than that of searching for truth and knowledge.”
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“Liberation is not deliverance. One gets free from the galleys, but not from the sentence. That”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
“THIS IS THE SURPRISE.”
― Les Misérables
― Les Misérables
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