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title: "2 Longer Understand Quotes by 2 authors"
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> [“I read a page of Plato's great work. I can no longer understand anything, because behind the words on the page, which have their own heavenly brightness, to be sure, there shines an even brighter, an enormous, dazzling -why- that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/eug-ne-ionesco/i-read-a-page-of-plato-s-great-work-i-can-no-longer-understand/)

[Eugène Ionesco](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/eug-ne-ionesco/)

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> [Since others have explained my theory, I can no longer understand it myself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/albert-einstein/since-others-have-explained-my-theory-i-can-no-longer-understand-it/)

[Albert Einstein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/albert-einstein/)

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