{"id":380,"date":"2009-01-13T05:00:21","date_gmt":"2009-01-13T05:00:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/onecity\/2009\/01\/heard-in-one-city-quote-of-the-day-1.html"},"modified":"2009-01-13T05:00:21","modified_gmt":"2009-01-13T05:00:21","slug":"heard-in-one-city-quote-of-the-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/01\/heard-in-one-city-quote-of-the-day-1.html","title":{"rendered":"Heard in One City: Quote of the Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

“While other people were publishing or working, I, on the contrary, devoted three years of travel to forgetting all that I had learnt with my head.\u00a0 This unlearning was slow and difficult; it was of more use to me than all the learning imposed by men, and was really the beginning of an education.\u00a0 You will never know the efforts it cost us to become interested in life; but now that life does interest us, it will be, like everything else, passionately.”
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“While other people were publishing or working, I, on the contrary, devoted three years of travel to forgetting all that I had learnt with my head.\u00a0 This unlearning was slow and difficult; it was of more use to me than all the learning imposed by men, and was really the beginning of an education.\u00a0 You…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":190,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-380","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-and-media"],"yoast_head":"\nHeard in One City: Quote of the Day - One City<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/onecity\/2009\/01\/heard-in-one-city-quote-of-the-day-1.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Heard in One City: Quote of the Day - One City\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"“While other people were publishing or working, I, on the contrary, devoted three years of travel to forgetting all that I had learnt with my head.\u00a0 This unlearning was slow and difficult; 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