We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation. (Alexander Herzen)

We have wasted our spirit in the regions of the abstract and general just as the monks let it wither in the world of prayer and contemplation.

Alexander Herzen

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