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“He’d spent his entire exile schooling himself to face that he would never get what he wanted. People didn’t, sometimes. So you made a…

— Sherwood Smith

“He had spent the previous four years, as he saw it, preparing to fulfill an absurd and onerous duty: to graduate from college. At…

— Jon Krakauer

“From the primary school till he leaves the university a young man does nothing but acquire books by heart without his judgment or personal…

— Gustave Le Bon

“He knew that to achieve greatness you had to be an outsider. He knew that by struggling against adverse opinion, by sometimes feeling inadequate,…

— David Gibbins

“He began to have a dim feeling that, to attain his place in the world, he must be himself, and not another.”

— W.E.B. Du Bois

“He comes in entirely as an outsider. He lets his mind wander. He’s not endangering his academic position because he doesn’t have one, and…

— Alexandra Robbins

“When he graduated he’d thought life was going to be like a novel, starring him on his own personal hero’s journey, and that the…

— Lev Grossman

“Like so many creative men of his school he was hounded by an incessant restlessness.”

— Leon Uris

“There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns dropped out…

— Robert Musil

“He is a poor pupil who does not go beyond his master.”

— Leonardo da Vinci

“He couldn't have explained this misery of his, it exceeded his education.”

— Louis-Ferdinand Céline

“Whoso neglects learning in his youth, loses his past and is dead for the future.”

— Euripides