“It would be impossible to get through the kind of life that I have known without accumulating a vast unused stockpile of rage. Retaliation, though, was a luxury I could never afford. On the physical level I was too feeble. On any other I was not rich enough. I never dared to be rude to anyone. I never knew that I might not need him later. Long after fantasies of sexual excess had ceased to torment me, my imagination was inflamed by lurid day-dreams of having my revenge on the world.”

Source: Donald Keene's Anthology of Japanese Literature (1955), p. 78

"Methods of Work" (p. 64)
posthumous quotes, Degas: An Intimate Portrait' (1927)

Source: Silver Borne

Violating the Boundaries: An Interview with Richard Rodriguez (1999)

Source: Bleak House (1852-1853), Ch. 67

And It Is Divine, (January 1973) Volume 1, issue 3 - Referring to the day his father and teacher gave him the techniques of Knowledge
1970s

Source: Noughts & Crosses

Variant: If we'd never met, I think I would have known my life wasn't complete. And I would have wandered the world in search of you, even if I didn't know who I was looking for.
Source: The Longest Ride