• The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.

  Gerard De Nerval
  French writer, poet 1808-1855
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Subjects in these quotes:

1. generations
2. ignorance
3. learned
4. cannot

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The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life! And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned. by : Gerard De Nerval

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