“Everybody has to burn his own hand …”

October 2nd, 2012

“It is impossible to transmit one’s wisdom, one’s life experience, to anybody else. Knowledge is transmissible, but deductions from knowledge, no. Everybody has to burn his own hand, before he keeps it out of the fire.”

From The Impenitent Midge, by Vladimir Krymov

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