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Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and

Every experience is a paradox in that it means to be absolute, and yet is relative in that it somehow always goes beyond itself and yet never escapes itself. – T. S. Eliot

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We deem those happy who from the experience of life have learnt to bear its ills without being overcome by them. – Carl Jung

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