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People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

Soren Kierkegaard

Soren Kierkegaard (1813–1855), Danish philosopher. "Preamble from the Heart," Fear and Trembling (1843, trans. 1985).

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