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The quote suggests that political experiences do not easily teach people the lessons they should learn from them. It implies that even repeated involvement in politics may fail to change how people think or act. The speaker is pointing to a stubbornness or blindness in political life.
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Originally said in English.
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About Doris Lessing
British novelist
Doris Lessing was a British novelist, born in Iran and later associated with Southern Rhodesia and England. She won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2007 and is known for fiction shaped by displacement, political questionings, and changing personal and social worlds. Her novels include The Grass Is Singing, the five-volume Children of Violence sequence, The Golden Notebook, The Good Terrorist, and the five books of Canopus in Argos: Archives. Her work often engages with society, ideology, and the pressures placed on individual lives.
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The Golden Notebook
1962
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