"Knowledge can be communicated, but not wisdom. One can find it, live it, be fortified by it, do wonders through it, but one cannot communicate and tea...

I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
~ Hermann Hesse ~












I will no longer mutilate and destroy myself in order to find a secret behind the ruins.
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