"…There are times when something is asked of……" — Jesse Ball
"…There are times when something is asked of us, and we find we must do it. There is no calculation involved, no measure of the necessity of the thing itself, the action that must be performed. There is simply an acknowledgment that we will do the thing in question, and then the thing is done, often at considerable personal cost. " "What goes into these decisions? What tiny factors, invisible, in the jutting edges of personality and circumstance, contribute to this inevitability?"
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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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In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others,…
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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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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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