Christine

“Why is it that London always seems the most alive and full of possibility on the nights when you've got no plans?”
― Dolly Alderton, Good Material

“either we hold on to the possibility of moral judgement of their terrible deeds and then we must blame them; or we refuse to blame and must then relinquish the possibility of moral judgement.”
― Raimond Gaita, A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice

“Philosophy is at its heart always a meta-activity, stepping back to think about thinking. It thinks not only about what our obligations are, but also about the concept of obligation; not only about what is just, but also about the concept of justice; not only about what it is rational to do or believe, but also about the concept of the rational. This makes it difficult for some people to find their feet with philosophy, and it makes them impatient of it. To them, I repeat Wittgenstein’s advice concerning how philosophers should greet one another. He said they should say, ‘Take your time.”
― Raimond Gaita, A Common Humanity: Thinking about Love and Truth and Justice

“I sat down opposite him. He looked up, straight into my eyes as he does, and smiled at me. At that moment, we were both a hundred years old and we had known each other for ever.”
― Helen Garner, Monkey Grip