Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it …

Richard Wright
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Is not life exactly what it ought to be, in a certain sense? Isn't it only the naive who find all of this baffling? If you've a notion of what man's heart is, wouldn't you say that maybe the whole effort of man on earth to build a civilization is simply man's frantic and frightened attempt to hide himself from himself? ✨ Richard Wright (1953). The Outsider, New York : Harper
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