# Quote — Daniel Keyes, Flowers For Algernon

> The meaning of my total existence involves knowing the possibilities of my future as well as my past, where I'm going as well as where I've been.

- Author: [Daniel Keyes](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes.md)
- Book: [Flowers For Algernon](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon.md)
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- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon/the-meaning-of-my-total

## More from this book

> Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon/even-a-feeble-minded.md)

> The answer can't be found in books — or be solved by bringing it to other people. Not unless you want to remain a child all your life. You've got to find the answer inside you — feel the right thing to do.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon/the-answer-cant.md)

> I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

[Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/daniel-keyes/flowers-for-algernon/i-am-afraid.md)