“I can well understand why children love sand.”

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Although this quote has been attributed to Wittgenstein in Wittgenstein's Mistress by David Markson, there is no verifiable source from Wittgenstein that it can be traced back to.
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Austrian-British philosopher 1889–1951

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