“No one is so keen to gather ever newer impressions as those who do not know how to process the old ones.”

— Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Niemand ist so beflissen, immer neue Eindrücke zu sammeln, als derjenige, der die alten nicht zu verarbeiten versteht.
Source: Aphorisms (1880/1893), p. 61.

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