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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.

Adam Zagajewski

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A certain traveler who knew many continents was asked what he found most remarkable of all.
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More ocean than terra firma. More shadow than form.
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I drink from a small spring, / my thirst excedes the ocean.
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But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…
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And tracing the labyrinthine ways of your mind, the haphazard vagaries of your thoughts at ease,
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The odds and ends of your mental surplus you carelessly throw at the world, one wants to be at a loss, in a maze; amazed, and amazingly unabashed.
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