Geniuses are the luckiest of mortals because what they must do is the same as what they most want to do.
W. H. Auden
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The most difficult problem in personal knowledge, whether of oneself or of others, is the problem of guessing when to think as a historian and when to think as an anthropologist.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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