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Anonymous Posted 20 years ago
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'... come out where you went in.'

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00I don't understand this expression on this sentence:02br
00' He asked me if i had read Sappho or Socrates. I said, nope, that I hadn't, and then he asked me the same about Dante and Donne. I said, not much. He said the thing to remember them was that YOU ALWAYS COME OUT WHERE YOU WENT IN'02br
00Could someone help me?02br
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" said Satan, with his evil chuckle. "Nothing at all. You gain nothing;01font 00 you always come out where you went in.

— Clive

  • " said Satan, with his evil chuckle.
  • "Nothing at all.
  • You gain nothing;01font 00 you always come out where you went in.
  • 02font 00For a million years the race has gone on monotonously propagating itself and monotonously reperforming this dull nonsense--to what end?
  • No wisdom can guess!
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00It means that you gain nothing by reading the works of these people.02br
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00It's actually a quotation that was originally written by Mark Twain:02br
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Myself when young did eagerly frequent
Doctor and Saint, and heard great Argument
     About it and about; but evermore
Came out by the same Door as in I went.

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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As in life generally.... Yes! Life IS a circle, is it not!

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anonymousI don't understand this expression on this sentence:
' He asked me if I had read Sappho or Socrates. I said, nope, that I hadn't, and then he asked me the same about Dante and Donne. I said, not much. He said the thing to remember about them was that YOU ALWAYS COME OUT WHERE YOU W
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