The intellectual is constantly betrayed by his vanity. Godlike he blan…

Anne Morrow Lindbergh
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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 (1940). The wave of the future: a confession of faith
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