The Curfew
Jesse Ball
Top 10 Best Quotes
“…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?”
“I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.”
“That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!”
“If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.”
“Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?”
“We are born in this cemetery, but must not despair. -Piet Soron, 1847”
“In a long life, said many an old man, this is but one more thing. Yet there were others who were young and knew nothing about the helplessness of life's condition. Did they glow with light? They did, but of course, it could not be seen. And all the while, the grinding of bones like machinery, and the light step of tightrope walkers out beyond the windows.”
“…In this way that he sought to control the very passage of his life, deftly and without forethought, yet precisely and with enormous care. Part of it was to allow what was enormous, what was profound, without limiting it.”
“There will be no magic, whatsoever. Magic is either a poverty-stricken necessity or a wealthy fantasy. We are in neither of those straits, and what cannot be explained will be left unknown.”
“The action of a thing is the same as the naming of it - is, in fact, the real name. The trees creak and they are saying, 'trees creak through the long night.' The long night - what is it? Trees creaking. There wasn't anything that tied life's moments together, except life. And when it was gone?”
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actions, humor, reality, emotion, naming, fact, hope, living, personal-space, decisions, life, children, inaction, false-hope, wittgensteinian, perception, action, sacrifice, elephant, mindfulness, silly
