"We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it - the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it."

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Source : Saul Bellow (2015). “There Is Simply Too Much to Think About: Collected Nonfiction”, p.90, Penguin

Saul Bellow

#Mean Quotes #Choices Quotes #Tragedy Quotes

“Quantum mechanics brought an unexpected fuzziness into physics because of quantum uncertainty, the Heisenberg uncertainty principle. String theory does so again because a point particle is replaced by a string, which is more spread out.”
“When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.”
“Do not make too much haste on one's road.”
“All he asks is that we trust Him, that we stand before Him in integrity and faith. God is just waiting for us to trust Him.”
“You're going to learn that one of the most brutal things in the world is your average nineteen-year-old American boy.”

Source : Philip Caputo (1977). “A rumor of war”, Henry Holt & Co
“The barrier has begun to yield.”

Source : John Herschel (2014). “Essays from the Edinburgh and Quarterly Reviews”, p.550, Cambridge University Press
“Life - all life - is in the service of life. Necessary nutrients are made available to life by life in greater and greater richness as the diversity of life increases. The entire landscape comes alive, filled with relationships and relationships within relationships.”
“I feel like people are funny, and women are people, so I'm sick of the distinction.”

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