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Marsilio Ficino Quotes: In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.
         

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.


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