Jeremy Gilkison

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It was, he remembered later in his Autobiography, as if he had woken up from a dream. It instantly plunged him into a deep depression: “I seemed to have nothing left to live for.” Everything he had learned and done had been to please others, including his father. What he now realized was that there had been nothing left for himself.
The Cave and the Light: Plato Versus Aristotle, and the Struggle for the Soul of Western Civilization
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