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“Who's to say that my light is better than your darkness? Who's to say death is better than your darkness? Who am I to say?”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“People resent being shown that they don't approach the complexities of the problem - they don't know what exists beyond the surface ripples.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Although we know the end of the maze holds death (and it is something I have not always known--not long ago the adolescent in me thought death could happen only to other people), I see now that the path I choose through that maze makes me what I am. I am not only a thing, but also a way of being--one of many ways--and knowing the paths I have followed and the ones left to take will help me understand what I am becoming.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Even in the world of make-believe there have to be rules. The parts have to be consistent and belong together. This kind of picture is a lie. Things are forced to fit because the writer or the director or somebody wanted something in that didn't belong. And it doesn't feel right.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
“Intelligence is one of the greatest human gifts. But all too often a search for knowledge drives out the search for love. This is something else I've discovered for myself very recently. I present it to you as a hypothesis: Intelligence without the ability to give and receive affection leads to mental and moral breakdown, to neurosis, and possibly even psychosis. And I say that the mind absorbed in and involved in itself as a self-centered end, to the exclusion of human relationships, can only lead to violence and pain.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
Perthro’s 2025 Year in Books
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