The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August
Claire North
Top 10 Best Quotes
“The most it ever seems we know how to do with time, is to waste it.”
“There is no loss, if you cannot remember what you have lost.”
“Men must be decent first and brilliant later, otherwise you're not helping people, just servicing the machine.”
“I know now that there is something dead inside me though I cannot remember exactly when it died.”
“They say that the mind cannot remember pain; I say it barely matters, for even if the physical sensation is lost, our recollection of the terror that surrounds it is perfect.”
“Time was simple, is simple. We can divide it into simple parts, measure it, arrange dinner by it, drink whisky to its passage. We can mathematically deploy it, use it to express ideas about the observable universe, and yet if asked to explain it in simple language to a child–in simple language which is not deceit, of course–we are powerless. The most it ever seems we know how to do with time is to waste it.”
“This thing you carry inside you, I don’t know what it is. I don’t know where you got it. But Harry, the past is the past. You are alive today. That is all that matters. You must remember, because it is who you are, but as it is who you are, you must never, ever regret. To regret your past is to regret your soul.”
“When I am optimistic, I choose to believe that every life I lead, every choice I make, has consequence. That I am not one Harry August but many, a mind flicking from parallel life to parallel life, and that when I die, the world carries on without me, altered by my deeds, marked by my presence.”
“Is there innocence in ignorance? And if there is, do we tolerate other for their innocence's sake?”
“Dr August, there is no greater isolation a man may experience than to be lonely in a crowd. He may nod, and smile, and say the right thing, but even by this pretence his soul is pushed further away from the kinship of men.”
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Book Keywords:
grief, innocence-and-experience, loss, time, loneliness, pain, sadness, life, spiritual, ignorance, depression, memory
