We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to b — Alexander Herzen, From Other Shore & Russian People & Socialism
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to b — Alexander Herzen, From Other Shore & Russian People & Socialism
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to b — Alexander Herzen, From Other Shore & Russian People & Socialism
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to b — Alexander Herzen, From Other Shore & Russian People & Socialism
We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to b — Alexander Herzen, From Other Shore & Russian People & Socialism
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We think the purpose of a child is to grow up because it does grow up. But its purpose is to play, to enjoy itself, to be a child. If we merely look to the end of the process, the purpose of life is death

— Alexander Herzen, From Other Shore & Russian People & Socialism
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