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"Failure to grasp centrifugal meaning is incomplete reading; failure to grasp centripetal meaning is incompetent reading."

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as though "the Truth" were such an innocent and incompetent creature as to require protectors!

— Friedrich Nietzsche

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The earth we inhabit is an error, an incompetent parody. Mirrors and paternity are abominable because they multiply and affirm it.

— Jorge Luis Borges

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