Hannah Ingber’s Reviews > The Eternal Moment and Other Stories > Status Update

“Giuseppe, we thought, was safer than most. We loved him, and many of us he loved: but that is a different thing from being good."

“"They loved each other, but love is not happiness. We can all get love. Love is nothing.”

“I don't know why, but it filled me with desire to
help others-the greatest of all our desires, I suppose, and the put i am ound me, which he had most fruitless. The desire soon passed.

finished the first story… "Beware of first-hand ideas!" exclaimed one of the most advanced of them. "First-hand ideas do not really exist. They are but the physical impressions produced by love and fear, and on this gross foundation who could erect a philosophy? Let your ideas be second-hand, and if possible tenth-hand, for then they will be far removed from that distrubing element-direct observation.”

“Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over.
Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilisation had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Pekin when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would be just like Pekin? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul.”

should probs stop getting so many books but i’m excited to read this