"When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place."

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Source : Charles Finch (2008). “The September Society”, p.45, Macmillan

Charles Finch

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“Your thin white face, chÃ©rie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.”
“But settled things were enemies to me and soon lost their newness and color. The unknown called.”

Source : Agnes Smedley (2012). “Daughter of Earth”, p.123, Courier Corporation
“I don't like to eat in movies. I don't like props. Some people have always got to have a thing and they're doing this or doing that. I hate it. I just want to talk or fight. Or both!”
“I can begin to give God attributes. He's a counselor. He's a healer. He's a friend that sits closer than a brother. To me, he just - I sum it up that he's my anchor, my rock, my foundation in life, that my life was - had an emptiness - a deep, dark void with something - it had a lot of fulfillment externally, but something inside said there's more.”

Source : Source: culteducation.com
“In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.”
“As is our confidence, so is our capacity.”
“I became quite successful very young, and it was mainly because I was so enthusiastic and I just worked so hard at it.”
“I needed to be alone, I felt. I wanted to be going on alone to my future.”

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