A Quote by Charles Finch

When you became a student at Oxford you realized both your own mortality, in the flow of this near-millennium of students, and also the small particle of immortality that attaches to you when you begin to belong to an immortal place.

Charles Finch

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Charles Finch
American - Author
Born: 1980

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Anand Giridharadas

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