"In searching for a way out of my……" — Jesse Ball
"In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another."
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13 Quotes by Jesse Ball
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The old man began to sing. His voice was very lovely and obviously a part of something that the world…
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That would be the death of anyone - to recognize false hopes with a certainty. One mustn't know that. If…
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Sunday was always the best of days for being the self you had intended to be, but were not, for…
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One can't say how one behaved or why, really. Such situations, they are far more complex than any either/or proposition.…
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It is at the heart of our human enterprise, that is to say, at the heart of society, to allow…
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I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and…
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Three things are required of you: the wishes you made when you first knew the breadth of this life; the…
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…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation…
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If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at…
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Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?
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First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside…
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I'm an elephant today. I will need to have lots of room and also a bowl of water on the…
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