Bertrand Russell Quotes

Bertrand Russell Quotes 366

The years of adolescence were to me very lonely and very unhappy. Both in the life of the emotions and in the life of the intellect, I was obliged to preserve an impenetrable secrecy towards my people. My interests were divided between sex, religion, and mathematics. I find the recollection of my sexual preoccupation in adolescence unpleasant. I do not like to remember how I felt in those years, but I will do my best to relate things as they were and not as I could wish them to have been.
Source: Bertrand Russell: The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell, v.1, chap. 1, 1967
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The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell is a remarkable autobiography with much to gain from reading it. A Japanese translation was published by Risosha between 1967 and 1973 by Ikki Hidaka (trans.), but unfortunately there are quite a few mistranslations. It would be nice if someone would publish a new translation.
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