![It is quite clear to me that the religious paradise of youth, which [I] lost, was a first attempt to free myself from the chains of the 'merely personal,' from an existence which is dominated by wishes, hopes, and primitive feelings.](/assets/img/quote-photos/it-is-quite-clear-to-me-that-the-religious-paradise-of-youth-which-i-lost-was.jpg)
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religious giving-up children
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religious hero character
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religious errors grace
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His thinking was a little off and too complicated.
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I went into this thinking it would be a long-term project.
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thinking people trying
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thinking guitar ideas
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Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings. Umberto Eco
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