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“ Of silence, I can say only what I heard, that all things are known by that which they make or leave–and so speech isn’t itself, but its effect, and silence is the same. ”

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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!

~ Jesse Ball

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

~ Jesse Ball

I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the floor.

~ Jesse Ball

…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.

~ Jesse Ball