“Put your soul in the palm of my hand for me to look at, like a crystal jewel. I'll sketch it in words...”
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“But sometimes when you’re too careful it just turns into a different kind of carelessness.”
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
― A Brief History of Seven Killings
“Because we don't know, do we? Everyone knows… How what happens the way it does? What underlies the anarchy of the train of events, the uncertainties, the mishaps, the disunity, the shocking irregularities that define human affairs? Nobody knows. 'Everyone knows' is the invocation of the cliché and the beginning of the banalization of experience, and it's the solemnity and the sense of authority that people have in voicing the cliché that's so insufferable. What we know is that, in an unclichéd way, nobody knows anything. You can't know anything. The things you know you don't know. Intention? Motive? Consequence? Meaning? All the we don't know is astonishing. Even more astonishing is what passes for knowing.”
― The Human Stain
― The Human Stain
“When people concentrate on the idea of beauty, they are, without realizing it, confronted with the darkest thoughts that exist in this world. That, I suppose, is how human beings are made.”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“Take for yourself what you can, and don't be ruled by others; to belong to oneself - the whole savour of life lies in that.”
― Spring Torrents
― Spring Torrents
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