They say to know oneself is to know all there is that is hu… - Gore Vidal

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They say to know oneself is to know all there is that is human. But of course no one can ever know himself. Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

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Eugene Luther Gore Vidal (born Eugene Louis Vidal; (3 October 1925 – 31 July 2012), was an American writer of novels, essays, screenplays, and stage plays.

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Nothing human is finally calculable; even to ourselves we are strange.

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