"...but now he has the impression that his past views about society were, after all, too one-sided.

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"...but now he has the impression that his past views about society were, after all, too one-sided. In reality, it is probably like Earth: a cold crust on the outside, a core of burning lava inside."

Zhang Jie 张洁 (1937-2022) in her 1981 post-Maoist novel "Heavy Wings" (or "Leaden Wings") which I am currently reading. A novel full of structural tension, struggle, failure, aspiration.