Everyone and everything needed to be raised to its highest level â€“ the teacher must become a mage, the husband a knight errant, the labor a hero in a sacred drama â€“ intensified, rarefied, baptized in the turbulent waters of restlessness, curiosity, and ardor.

Philip Zaleski

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