“He had reached that moment in life, different for each one of us, when a man abandons himself to his demon or to his genius, following a mysterious law which bids him either to destroy or outdo himself.”
Marguerite Yourcenar
more infosource: Memoirs of Hadrian (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), 71.
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category: character, decision, life, turning point
medium: fiction
notes: quoted by Mary Karr in her Twitter feed
“Perhaps the turning point in one’s life is realizing that to be treated like a victim is not necessarily to become one.”
James Baldwin
more infosource: The Paris Review Interviews, vol. II (New York: Picador, 2007), 259.
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category: school of life, turning point, victim
medium: interview
notes: Originally published in Issue 91 of The Paris Review, 1984.
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