"There is no more hypocritical saying than when a person encourages himself like this: I want to know what I am holding on to. Basically, we don't want to know at all. We fear it. Contributing to the fear is some vague desire to find out the truth only as later as possible. We don't admit this to ourselves, but we would like to turn back, and if we ran too far ahead, we reproach ourselves.
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Author
Victor HugoAll Translations
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There is no more hypocritical saying than when a person encourages himself like this: I want to know what I am holding on to. Basically, we don't want to know at all. We fear it. Contributing to the fear is some vague desire to find out the truth only as later as possible. We don't admit this to ourselves, but we would like to turn back, and if we ran too far ahead, we reproach ourselves.
""Nincs képmutatóbb mondás, mint ha az ember így biztatja magát: tudni akarom, mihez tartsam magam. Alapjában véve egyáltalán nem akarjuk tudni. Félünk tőle. A félelemhez hozzájárul valami homályos törekvés, hogy csak minél később tudjuk meg a valót. Ezt nem valljuk be magunknak, de szívesen visszafordulnánk, s ha nagyon előreszaladtunk, szemrehányásokat teszünk magunknak."