Jesse Ball Quotes

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One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition. It is simplistic to produce events in pairs and lean them against each other like cards. I suppose if you a playing go or shogi, then such a thing might be helpful, but that is not life.

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I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is.

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If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

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First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.

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Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for one reason or another.

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The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world had disposed of in its haste, evidence of a grander, kinder past.

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It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow consensus a power it ought not to have.

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That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!

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Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

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This is what we bear, I thought, the nearness of other lives.

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