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Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'
-Ralph Ellison
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Without The Possibility Of Action, All Knowledge

Ralph Ellison
Without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled 'file and forget.'
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So why do i write, torturing myself to put it down? because in spite of myself i've learned some things. without the possibility of action, all knowledge comes to one labeled "file and forget," and i can neither file nor forget. nor will certain ideas forget me; they keep filing away at my lethargy, my complacency. why should i be the one to dream this nightmare?
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The endless cycle of idea and action, endless invention, endless experiment, brings knowledge of motion, but not of stillness; knowledge of speech, but not of silence; knowledge of words, and ignorance of the word. all our knowledge brings us nearer to our ignorance, all our ignorance brings us nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to god. where is the life we have lost in living? where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? where is the knowledge we have lost in information? the cycles of heaven in twenty centuries bring us farther from god and nearer to the dust.
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