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“Just trying to do the hardest thing of all – to understand”

I know that life is in its basis a mystery; a river flowing from an unseen source and in its development an infinite subtlety; a ‘dome of many-colored glass,’ too complex for thought, much less for utterance

I know that life is in its basis a mystery; a river flowing from an unseen source and in its development an infinite subtlety; a ‘dome of many-colored glass,’ too complex for thought, much less for utterance

July 1, 2018 Nate

— Will Durant from “Fallen Leaves – Last words on Life, Love, War and God.” P. 10


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