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John KnowlesStichwörter: a-separate-peace
Because, unfamiliar with the absence of fear and what that was like, I have not been able to identify its presence.
John KnowlesStichwörter: fear
He was nodding his head, his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand and I believe you. You’ve already shown me and I believe you.
John KnowlesWhat I mean is, I love winter, and when you really love something, then it loves you back, in whatever way it has to love."
I didn't think that this was true, my seventeen years of experience had shown this to be much more false than true, but it was like every other thought and belief of Finny's: it should have been true.
Stichwörter: love
You never waste your time. That's why I have to do it for you.
John KnowlesStichwörter: friendship gene finny
Let us pray". We all slumped immediately and unthinkingly in to the awkward crouch in which God was addressed.
John KnowlesIn 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 KnowlesStichwörter: existence school thought feeling
Now here it was after all, preserved by some considerate hand with varnisch and wax. Preserved along with it, like stale air in an unopened room, was the well known fear which had surrounded and filled those days, so much of it that I hadn't even known it was there. Because, unfamiliar with the abscence of fear and what that was like, I had not been able to identify it's presence.
Looking back now across fifteen years, I could see with great clarity the fear I had lived in, which must mean that in the interval I had succeeded in a very important undertaking: I must have made my escape from it.
I felt fear's echo, and along with that I felt the unhinged, uncontrollable joy which had been its accompanient and opposite face, joy which had broken out sometimes in those days like Northern Lights across black sky
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 KnowlesFinny never permitted himself to realize that when you won they lost. That would have destroyed the perfect beauty which was sport.
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