“He’d lost track of what he wanted, and since who a person was was what a person wanted, you could say that he’d lost track of himself.”
Jonathan Franzen
more infosource: The Corrections (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2001), 539.
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category: identity, lost, want
medium: Fiction
“His mind makes immense detours. Then he gets lost. And then I am able to bring him back, not because I know any more than he does, or because I am more whole, but because I have a sense of direction in the world of ideas.”
Anaïs Nin
more infosource: The Diary of Anaïs Nin [Vol. 1 1931–1934] (New York: The Swallow Press, 1966), 158.
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category: Henry Miller, idea, lost, sense of direction
medium: diary
notes: Nin is describing Henry Miller
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