“You look at where you're going and where you are and it never makes sense, but then you look back at where you've been and a pattern seems to emerge.”

—  Robert M. Pirsig, book Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

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American writer and philosopher 1928–2017

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