“We can know only that we know nothing. And that is the highest degree of human wisdom.”
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I wanted movement and not a calm course of existence. I wanted excitement and the chance to sacrifice myself for my love. I felt it in myself a superabundance of energy which found no outlet in our quiet life.
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