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“It is impossible to think of an ideal human life except as an alternation of individual and social life, as equally a belonging and an escape.” quote by Northrop Frye — Download Open image

““It is impossible to think of an ideal human life except as an alternation of individual and social life, as equally a belonging and an escape.””

Northrop Frye

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Even the human heart is slightly left of centre.

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One doesn't bother to believe the credible: the credible is believed already, by definition. There's no adventure of the mind.

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