“One should not believe too strongly in a life which can easily vanish.”
― A Sport and a Pastime
― A Sport and a Pastime
“She comes to life with a soft exhausted sound, like someone saved from drowning.”
― A Sport and a Pastime
― A Sport and a Pastime
“The children playing by the fountains will become old men, but nothing of this will have changed”
― A Sport and a Pastime
― A Sport and a Pastime
“The summer has ended. The garden withers. The mornings become chill. I am thirty, I am thirty-four–the years turn dry as leaves.”
― A Sport and a Pastime
― A Sport and a Pastime
“There may not be as much humanity in the world as one would like to see. But there is some. There's more than one would think. In any case, if you break faith with what you know, that's a betrayal of many, many, many, many people. I may know six people, but that's enough. Love has never been a popular movement and no one's ever wanted really to be free. The world is held togther, really it is held together, by the love and the passion of very few people. Otherwise, of course you're in despair. Walk down the street of any city, any afternoon, and look around you. What you've got to remember is what you're looking at is also you. Everyone you're looking at is also you. You could be that person. You could be that person, you could be that cop. And you have to decide in yourself not to be.”
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