“All of us yearn for the highest wisdom, but we have to rely on ourselves in the end.”
Czeslaw Milosz (1911–2004) Polish, poet, diplomat, prosaist, writer, and translator
“All wisdom ends in paradox.”
— Jeffrey Eugenides, book The Virgin Suicides
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