A Separate Peace
John Knowles
Top 10 Best Quotes
“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.”
“I felt that I was not, never had been and never would be a living part of this overpoweringly solid and deeply meaningful world around me.”
“Everyone has a moment in history which belongs particularly to him. It is the moment when his emotions achieve their most powerful sway over him, and afterward when you say to this person "the world today" or "life" or "reality" he will assume that you mean this moment, even if it is fifty years past. The world, through his unleashed emotions, imprinted itself upon him, and he carries the stamp of that passing moment forever.”
“What I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love.”
“Nothing endures. Not a tree. Not love. Not even death by violence.”
“It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart”
“I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.”
“Sarcasm... the protest of those who are weak.”
“Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.”
“So the more things remained the same, the more they changed after all. Nothing endures. Not love, not a tree, not even a death by violence.”
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