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On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. they carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
-Georg Simmel
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On The One Hand, Life Is Made

Georg Simmel
On the one hand, life is made infinitely easy for the personality in that stimulations, interests, uses of time and consciousness are offered to it from all sides. they carry the person as if in a stream, and one needs hardly to swim for oneself.
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