“He had discharged his destiny; now, perhaps, he could begin to live.”
Source: The City and the Stars (1956), Chapter 25 (p. 187)
“… que busca? Tal vez busca su destino. Tal vez su destino es buscar.
… what is he searching for? Perhaps he searches for his destiny. Perhaps his destiny is to search.”
Source: El Laberinto de la Soledad
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“Perhaps the heart of the American Dream was found in the search.”
William McKeen
(1954) American academic
Source: Outlaw Journalist (2008), Chapter 11, Making A Beast Of Himself, p. 175
Variant: What is the nature of the search? you ask. The search is what anyone would undertake if he were not sunk in the everydayness of his own life. To become aware of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair.
Source: The Moviegoer (1961)
Context: To become aware of the possibility of the search is to be onto something. Not to be onto something is to be in despair. The movies are onto the search, but they screw it up. The search always ends in despair. They like to show a fellow coming to himself in a strange place-but what does he do? He takes up with the local librarian, sets about proving to the local children what a nice fellow he is, and settles down with a vengeance. In two weeks time he is so sunk in everydayness that he might just as well be dead.
Ramakrishna
(1836–1886) Indian mystic and religious preacher
and there his search ends. Such, indeed is the search for Brahman.
Source: Sayings of Sri Ramakrishna (1960), p. 733
