"It is easy to see things in retrospect. But I was ignorant then of everything but my own happiness, and I donâ€™t know what else to say except that life itself seemed very magical in those days: a web of symbol, coincidence, premonition, omen. Everything, somehow, fit together; some sly and benevolent Providence was revealing itself by degrees and I felt myself trembling on the brink of a fabulous discovery, as though any morning it was all going to come togetherâ€“my future, my past, the whole of my lifeâ€“and I was going to sit up in bed like a thunderbolt and say oh! oh! oh!"

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Source : Donna Tartt (2011). “The Secret History”, p.88, Vintage

Donna Tartt

#Morning Quotes #Past Quotes #Discovery Quotes

“To realize that I was the victim of what was apparently someone's sick joke and constant lies was, and is, painful and humiliating.”
“This is my child, he said. I wash a dead man's brains out of his hair. That is my job.”
“In the battle of faith, money is usually the last stronghold to fall.”
“Life is neither good or evil, but only a place for good and evil.”
“Susceptibility to the highest forces is the highest genius.”
“If only it was as easy to banish hunger by rubbing the belly as it is to masturbate.”

Source : "Lives and Opinions of Eminent Philosophers, Book 6: The Cynics". Book by Diogenes Laërtius translated by R. D. Hicks, 1925.
“All I really know is the extent of my own ignorance”
“A theory can be proved by experiment; but no path leads from experiment to the birth of a theory.”

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