“ We are the wreck of what we have been, and the place of our own future demise. ”
That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If it is offered, refuse!
~ Jesse Ball
Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.
…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.
