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Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.

Swimming against the current is not idiotic if the waters are racing toward a waterfall.
– Nicols Gmez Dvila

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  3. Modern man is a prisoner who thinks he is free because he refrains from touching thewalls of his dungeon. – Nicols Gmez Dvila
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