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Knowing oneself was only the
first task, the second was self-transformation. That is, once you reach an inner equilibrium, once you have unravelled
the knots, you must bring the whole "pattern" down to a few simple lines...No more fears, hesitations, superstitions,
no more keeping up with fads of the day. These monsters, if one does not get rid of them in time, will later become
fixed ideas from which there will be no salvation in old age.
Nina Berberova died in Philadelphia in September, 1993.
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