The young often have moments of clear thinking, which as they grow older become fewer, and muddied. He had kept alive in some part of him a knowledge that he was “destined” to do something or other. He felt this as pure and unsullied, but – more often and more deeply as he grew older – “impractical”.
-Doris Lessing
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