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" The possession of knowledge does not kill the sense of wonder and mystery. There is always more mystery. "
Anais Nin
Knowledge
Always
Wonder
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" There are very few human beings who receive the truth, complete and staggering, by instant illumination. Most of them acquire it fragment by fragment, on a small scale, by successive developments, cellularly, like a laborious mosaic. "
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