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“The classroom was a jail of other people’s interests. The library was open, unending, free.”
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“All of us know, whether or not we are able to admit it, that mirrors can only lie, that death by drowning is all that awaits one there. It is for this reason that love is so desperately sought and so cunningly avoided. Love takes off the masks that we fear we cannot live without and know we cannot live within.”
― The Fire Next Time
― The Fire Next Time
“To some people, I may seem calm. But if you could peer beneath the surface, you would see that I'm like a duck--paddling, paddling, paddling.”
― My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
― My Age of Anxiety: Fear, Hope, Dread, and the Search for Peace of Mind
“I can't even say I made my own mistakes. Really - one has to ask oneself - what dignity is there in that?”
― The Remains of the Day
― The Remains of the Day
“But now I understand the gravity of what I was proposing—that a four-year-old child be watchful, prudent, and shrewd, that I curtail your happiness, that you submit to a loss of time. And now when I measure this fear against the boldness that the masters of the galaxy imparted to their own children, I am ashamed.”
― Between the World and Me
― Between the World and Me
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