Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel book The Phenomenology of Spirit
Preface, § 2
The Phenomenology of Spirit (1807)
“Not quite what one expected, but once it happened one realized it couldn't be any other way.”
— Donna Tartt, book The Secret History
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