“Josip considers this a very good sign. Winston may be abandoning his habit of confusing data for wisdom.”
― Island of the World: A Novel
― Island of the World: A Novel
“Every family member reacts to the suicide of a loved one in his or her own individual manner: from anger to admiration, from identification to denial. Dr. Edward Dunne likens the suicide of his brother, Tim, to a meteorite that crashed into his family, sending each member into different and separate orbits of mourning. “Suicide destroys the original fabric of the family, forcing a reintegration of the survivors,” he says. “The pace at which individual family members are ready and able to do this will vary, necessitating individual interventions.”
― No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
― No Time to Say Goodbye: Surviving The Suicide Of A Loved One
“to hide them. “A man is himself and no other”, Josip says. “He is an island in the sea of being. And each island is as no other. The islands are connected because they have come forth from the sea, and the sea flows between them. It separates them yet unites them, if they learn to swim.”
― Island of the World: A Novel
― Island of the World: A Novel
“Individual destiny is not produced machine-like from the “mills of the gods”. Nor are we characters in a morality play. We are works of art, each work distinct, each a phenomenon, the art laboring hand in hand with the Artist to create the story. We are inside a poem. No, we are the poem.”
― Island of the World: A Novel
― Island of the World: A Novel
“and arrogant, to tell people it is fine to poison themselves with chemicals and mutilate their bodies at the very sources of life, just so they can escape children! As if children could ever—ever—be a burden!”
― Island of the World: A Novel
― Island of the World: A Novel
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