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You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.
You could try and understand people, you could read books and understand words and concepts and ideas, but you could never understand enough or have enough knowledge to keep away the surprises that both fate and human beings had in store.
Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
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- Deb Caletti
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- Approximate author period: c. 1963 AD · modern
Approximate author-period anchor from documented birth year 1963; activity date not established; Wikidata Q5247760, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5247760 (accessed 2026-10-08). Not a quotation composition date.
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