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The Messiah is our doppelgänger, a more perfect version of ourselves—he is what we would be, had it not been for the fall.”
To learn a foreign language from scratch, a little bit in every place, comparing words and finding orders of similarity.
it—“Any man who does not have his own land is not a man.”
“Truth for truth’s sake is not worth looking into. The truth in itself is always complicated. What we want to know is what truth we can use, and how.”
A man who does not have a piece of land is not a man
There is something wonderful in being a stranger, in being foreign, something to be relished, something as alluring as candy. It is good not to be able to understand a language, not to know the customs, to glide like a spirit among others who are distant and unrecognizable. Then a particular kind of wisdom awakens—an ability to surmise, to grasp the things that aren’t obvious. Cleverness and acumen come about. A person who is a stranger gains a new point of view, becomes, whether he likes it or not, a particular type of sage. Who was it who convinced us that being comfortable and familiar was
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Enlightenment begins when people lose their faith in the goodness and the order of the world. The Enlightenment is an expression of mistrust.
Because it appealed to me to travel back, in memory, because the past remained alive for me, while the present was barely breathing, and the future lay before me like a cold corpse.
