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If A Man Could Understand All The Horror Of The Lives Of Ordinary People Who Are Turning Around In A Circle Of Insignificant Interests And Insignificant Aims, If He Could Understand What They Are Losing, He Would Understand That There Can Only Be One Thing That Is Serious For Him - To Escape From The General Law, To Be Free. What Can Be Serious For A Man In Prison Who Is Condemned To Death? Only One Thing: How To Save Himself, How To Escape: Nothing Else Is Serious.
-G. I. Gurdjieff
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If A Man Could Understand All The

G. I. Gurdjieff
If A Man Could Understand All The Horror Of The Lives Of Ordinary People Who Are Turning Around In A Circle Of Insignificant Interests And Insignificant Aims, If He Could Understand What They Are Losing, He Would Understand That There Can Only Be One Thing That Is Serious For Him - To Escape From The General Law, To Be Free. What Can Be Serious For A Man In Prison Who Is Condemned To Death? Only One Thing: How To Save Himself, How To Escape: Nothing Else Is Serious.
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