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“- He was our commander not because someone appointed him but because we picked him to be our commander. He was a brave man, tall, six feet eight perhaps, and strong. He wasn’t afraid of anything. We looked up to him, all of us. And when I saw him lying there, without legs, crippled and totally helpless … I felt terrible.
- Did it perhaps occur to you to quit at that moment?
- No, it didn’t, once you’re inside you cant get out, you cant quit”
― The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War
- Did it perhaps occur to you to quit at that moment?
- No, it didn’t, once you’re inside you cant get out, you cant quit”
― The Balkan Express: Fragments from the Other Side of War
“Only knowledge can turn life's unbearableness into a weapon.”
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
― The Temple of the Golden Pavilion
“Great men die twice, once when they leave this world and a second time when their life work disappears.”
― The Bridge on the Drina
― The Bridge on the Drina
“When you're held by the dead, you begin to feel that you aren't in this world yourself.”
― Thousand Cranes
― Thousand Cranes
“Okay. He says there’s no death; it’s an illusion. Time is an illusion. Every instant
that comes into being never passes away. Anyhow—he says—it doesn’t really even come into being;
it was always there. The universe consists of concentric rings of reality; the greater the ring the more
it partakes of absolute reality. These concentric rings finally wind up as God; He’s the source of the
things, and they’re more real as they get nearer to him. It’s the principle of emanation, I guess. Evil is
simply a lesser reality, a ring farther from Him. It’s the lack of absolute reality, not the presence of an
evil deity. So there’s no dualism, no evil, no satan. Evil is an illusion like decay.”
― Counter-Clock World
that comes into being never passes away. Anyhow—he says—it doesn’t really even come into being;
it was always there. The universe consists of concentric rings of reality; the greater the ring the more
it partakes of absolute reality. These concentric rings finally wind up as God; He’s the source of the
things, and they’re more real as they get nearer to him. It’s the principle of emanation, I guess. Evil is
simply a lesser reality, a ring farther from Him. It’s the lack of absolute reality, not the presence of an
evil deity. So there’s no dualism, no evil, no satan. Evil is an illusion like decay.”
― Counter-Clock World
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