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make a cross he is dissatisfied and
If Matvey nails two big pieces of wood to make a cross, he is dissatisfied and tells him to do it again.
— from Project Gutenberg Compilation of 233 Short Stories of Chekhov by Anton Pavlovich Chekhov

maturity and completeness had its decisive and
3 It may be conjectured that a soul in which the type of "free spirit" can attain maturity and completeness had its decisive and deciding event in the form of a great emancipation or unbinding, and that prior to that event it seemed only the more firmly and forever chained to its place and pillar.
— from Human, All Too Human: A Book for Free Spirits by Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche

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