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Robert M. Pirsig, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values Quotes: When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.
         

When analytic thought, the knife, is applied to experience, something is always killed in the process.


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