[Kwot] Very far from understanding

"This was the first time that he had ever looked into the labyrinth of the human soul. He was very far from understanding what he saw...

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... For the understanding of the soul's defencelessness, of the conflict between the two poles, is not the source of the greatest song. The source of the greatest song is sympathy"

Halldór Laxness

in Sjálfstætt fólk ("Independent People")