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And where there was uncertainty, there was also possibility, whatever the present looked like.

She would accept the darkness of life in a way she never had, not as failure, but as part of a totality, as something that threw other things into relief, into growth, into being. The ash in the soil.

We only need to be one person. We only need to feel one existence. We don’t have to do everything in order to be everything, because we are already infinite. While we are alive, we always contain a future of multifarious possibility.

In chess, as in life, possibility is the basis of everything. Every Hope, every dream, every regret, every moment of living.

You will never live if you are looking for the meaning of life

Maybe that was the only meaning that mattered. To be the world, witnessing itself.

To be part of nature was to be part of the will to live.

When you stay too long in a place, you forget just how big and expanse the world is. You get no sense of the length of those longitude and latitudes. Just as she, supposed, it is hard to have a sense of the vastness inside one person.
But once you sense that vastness, once something reveals it, Hope emerges, whether you want it to or not, and it clings to you as stubborn as lichen clings to rock.

“never underestimate the big importance of small things”

“Because, Nora, sometimes the only way to learn is to live.”

Finished the introduction and authors note! Time to BEGINNNN

I am only 18 pgs into the intro and am rly enjoying it. Emily Wilson’s contextualization of the text is so enlightening. What draws me to this story already is 1.) “Homer” is likely a collection of people, all working together to create and 2.) the simple human truth of a man just wanting to make it home

I FREAKING KNEW IT literally from the start.