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The tendencies of the period take a man along with them, the atmosphere absorbs him, and it may not be until middle life when time, experience, maturity, suffering, disillusionment, and revelation have done their work that he comes to realize what has happened to him and asserts his spiritual independence.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 3 : Youth and Age > # 152