“To know oneself is to disbelieve in utopia.”

Confession of a Catholic http://books.google.com/books?id=vKUtAAAAMAAJ&q=%22To+know+oneself+is+to+disbelieve+in+utopia%22&pg=PA203#v=onepage (1983)

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