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The seed of curiosity had been planted; it needed nothing more than time and boredom to grow.

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that someone had opposed the great march toward equality; someone had been the person from whom freedom had to be wrested.

the decisions that go into making a life—the choices people make, together and on their own, that combine to produce any single event. Grains of sand, incalculable, pressing into sediment, then rock.

The past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, & thus we don’t have complete emotions about the present, only about the past. —VIRGINIA WOOLF

But what has come between me and my father is more than time or distance. It is a change in the self. I am not the child my father raised, but he is the father who raised her.

Sancho Panza: An adventuring knight is someone who’s beaten and then finds himself emperor.

believe finally, that education must be conceived as a continuing reconstruction of experience; that the process and the goal of education are one and the same thing.