"Gene, on the desire to be Finny: "I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas."

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Source : "A Separate Peace" by John Knowles, (p. 14), 1959.

John Knowles

#Desire Quotes #Purpose Quotes #Firsts Quotes

“There is no route out of the maze. The maze shifts as you move through it, because it is alive.”

Source : Philip K. Dick (2011). “The VALIS Trilogy”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“I'm not 18 anymore, so I'm not into starting unnecessary beefs. It's tacky.”
“Step up and shake the hand Of someone you can't stand, You can tolerate him if you try!”
“People have to make journeys, what we want is people to have alternatives in public transport so that they can make a choice about the sort of way in which they're going to travel.”
“A few books, well studied, and thoroughly digested, nourish the understanding more than hundreds but gargled in the mouth, as ordinary students use.”
“When I was five I was touring, singing and dancing. Always gone, always out of school.”
“With all due respect, many in the entertainment industry are deep into mind-altering substance abuse, and when one's logic and intellectual calculating powers are replaced with dopey feel-good, fantasy-driven denial, the democratic party serves them well.”
“Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.”

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