Wise Fridays: Youth in Revolt

“The man who seeks to wipe out his own past is thrown into a state of constant hatred of himself….The old cannot be cut out clean. There ensues a sort of spiritual gangrene.”

–Shmarya Levin, Youth in Revolt

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