No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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No power of genius has ever yet had the smallest success in explaining existence. The perfect enigma remains. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson (1983). Essays and Lectures, p.653, Library of America
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