“I've come to realize that life, while being everything, is also strangely not much. Except when the light shines on it a different way and then you realize it's a lot after all!”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
“There are too many ideas and things and people. Too many directions to go. I was starting to believe the reason it matters to care passionately about something, is that it whittles the world down to a more manageable size.”
― Adaptation.: The Shooting Script
― Adaptation.: The Shooting Script
“I am always sad, I think. Perhaps this signifies that I am not sad at all, because sadness is something lower than your normal disposition, and I am always the same thing. Perhaps I am the only person in the world, then, who never becomes sad. Perhaps I am lucky.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“Everything is made to perish; the wonder of anything at all is that it has not already done so. No, he thought. The wonder of anything is that it was made in the first place. What persists beyond this cataclysm of making and unmaking?”
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“Perhaps we had at last reached that stage of intimacy that destroys intimacy. ”
― A Gate at the Stairs
― A Gate at the Stairs
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