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“Finny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

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“He had never been jealous of me for a second. Now I knew that there never was and never could have been any rivalry between us. I was not of the same quality as he.”
― John Knowles , A Separate Peace

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“...he's imagining himself Justice incarnate, balancing the scales. He's forgotten that Justice incarnate is not only balancing the scales but also blindfolded.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

tags: a-separate-peace

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“You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

tags: right-thing

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“In the deep, tacit way in which feeling becomes stronger than thought, I had always felt that the Devon School came into existence the day i entered it, was vibrantly real while I was a student there, and then blinked out like a candle the day I left.”
― John Knowles, A Separate Peace

tags: existence, feeling, school, thought

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