"I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.“


-Ludwig Wittgenstein

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I sit astride life like a bad rider on a horse. I only owe it to the horse's good nature that I am not thrown off at this very moment.

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