Antonio Gramsci — "If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the …"
If you beat your head against the wall, it is your head that breaks and not the wall.
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From 'Selections from the Prison Notebooks' or a letter to his sister.
Date: c. 1929-1935
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