I knew it like destiny, and at the same time, I knew it as choice.
Interpretation
The quote reflects the interplay between fate and free will in shaping our lives.
In this quote, Jeanette Winterson expresses a profound understanding of how our lives are shaped by both destiny and the choices we make. It suggests that while certain events may feel predestined, individuals still possess the agency to make decisions that influence their paths, highlighting the duality of fate and free will in the human experience.
In practice
This quote is perfect for a discussion on the balance between destiny and personal choice during a philosophy class.
What is remembered is not a deed in stone but a metaphor. Meta = above. Pheren = to carry. That which is carried above the literalness of life. A way of thinking that avoids the problems of gravity. The word won't let me down. The single word that can release me from all that unuttered weight.
Reading things that are relevant to the facts of your life is of limited value. The facts are, after all, only the facts, and the yearning passionate part of you will not be met there. That is why reading ourselves as a fiction as well as fact is so liberating. The wider we read the freer we become.
I have a list of titles that I leave at the [library] desk, because they are bound to be written some day, and it's best to be ahead of the queue.
Woolf wanted to say dangerous things in Orlando but she did not want to say them in the missionary position.
In that house, you will find my heart. You must break in, Henri, and get it back for me.' Was she mad? We had been talking figuratively. Her heart was in her body like mine. I tried to explain this to her, but she took my hand and put it against her chest. Feel for yourself.
History is a string full of knots, the best you can do is admire it, and maybe tie it up a bit more. History is a hammock for swinging and a game for playing.
Life cannot find reasons to sustain it, cannot be a source of decent natural regard, unless each of us resolves to breathe such qualities into it.
My philosophy is simple: It's a down-home, common, horse-sense approach to things.
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
Anti-social behavior is a trait of intelligence in a world full of conformists.
The field of experience is the whole universe in all directions. Theory remains shut up within the limits of human faculties.
You are living in a dream of your own creation. Let it be the dream of a lifetime, for that is exactly what it is.
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