“Improvement makes straight roads; but the crooked roads without improvement are roads of genius.”
William Blake book The Marriage of Heaven and Hell
Source: 1790s, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (1790–1793), Proverbs of Hell, Line 66
“There is no road to the land without roads.”
Aphorism #99
Interglacial (2004)
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Fragment 60
Variant translations:
The road up and the road down are one and the same.
The road uphill and the road downhill are one and the same.
The way up and the way down are one and the same.
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