“Illusions fall away one after another like the husks of a fruit, and that fruit is experience. It is bitter to the taste, but there is fortitude to be found in gall – forgive me my old-fashioned turns of phrase.”
Book:Selected Writings
Quote by Gérard de Nerval
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Selected Writings
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