Life begins as a quest of the child for the man and ends as a journey by the man to rediscover the child.

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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

Laurens Van der Post in The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)
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Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

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There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living... a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Laurens Van der Post in Venture to the Interior (1951)
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The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents, so it is vital that parents should be aware of their inferior, their dark side, and should press on getting to know themselves.

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