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...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known,...
Author:
A.S. Byatt
Book:
The Virgin in the Garden
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...it is not possible to create the opposite of what one has always known, simply because the opposite is believed to be desired. Human beings need what they already know, even horrors.
( A.S. Byatt )
[ The Virgin in the Garden ]
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