Analysis Quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.” quote by Anne Morrow Lindbergh — Download Open image

“The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blandly assumes that he can express everything in words; whereas the things one loves, lives, and dies for are not, in the last analysis completely expressible in words.”

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

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Analysis Assuming Betrayed Godlike Intellectual Lasts Love & life One love Vanity

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