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“Time and space are incalculable, there measure is infinite. The formulas that explicate their workings, have all but been explained away. But there is one thing that remains, and always will.
‘The occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause.’
Chance.”
― Inara
‘The occurrence of events in the absence of any obvious intention or cause.’
Chance.”
― Inara
“scandalized”
― Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
― Gone to the Woods: Surviving a Lost Childhood
“The violence of nature masks the beauty and joy that hide just beneath the surface.”
― The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel
― The Lost City: An Epic YA Fantasy Novel
“Love is described like GOD.”
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“For human nature is such that grief and pain - even simultaneously suffered - do not add up as a whole in our consciousness, but hide, the lesser behind the greater, according to a definite law of perspective. It is providential and is our means of surviving in the camp. And this is the reason why so often in free life one hears it said that man is never content. In fact it is not a question of a human incapacity for a state of absolute happiness, but of an ever-insufficient knowledge of the complex nature of the state of unhappiness; so that the single name of the major cause is given to all its causes, which are composite and set out in an order of urgency. And if the most immediate cause of stress comes to an end, you are grievously amazed to see that another one lies behind; and in reality a whole series of others.
So that as soon as the cold, which throughout the winter had seemed our only enemy, had ceased, we became aware of the hunger; and repeating the same error, we now say: "If it was not for the hunger!...”
― If This Is a Man • The Truce
So that as soon as the cold, which throughout the winter had seemed our only enemy, had ceased, we became aware of the hunger; and repeating the same error, we now say: "If it was not for the hunger!...”
― If This Is a Man • The Truce
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