An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
ALAN LIGHTMAN
He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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An unusual counterpoint between personal history and the history of a young nation. Haunting, powerful, and beautifully written.
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Others hold that each decision must be considered and committed to, that without commitment there is chaos. Such people are content to live in contradictory worlds, so long as they know the reason for each.
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He hopes that she loves him in return. Is it possible for a person to love without wanting love back?
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Novels aren’t pedagogical instruments, or instructions in law or physics or any other discipline.
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Children curse their parents for their wrinkled skin and hoarse voices. Those now old children also want to stop time, but at another time. They want to freeze their own children at the center of time.
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Don’t you feel something magical when you’re in love?… I do, I certainly do … but I think that feeling of magic is a hardwired psychological response. It’s a chemical thing in the brain.
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My writings are an exploration, and I think a lot of writers would tell you this, but in writing, you’re not simply putting down things that are already known to you. You’re actually discovering in the writing process, you’re actually creating knowledge.
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Sons never escape from the shadows of their fathers. Nor do daughters of their mothers. No one ever comes into his own…Such is the cost of immortality. No person is whole. No person is free.
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I love staying in written correspondence with some writers. That’s enough for me.
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Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic.
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I think people all over the institution recognize that different ways of understanding are valuable. Artists may think in a different way than biologists or chemists, but you can learn something from that.
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Unconditional love. That’s what he wants to give her and what he wants from her. People should give without wanting anything in return.
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The urge to discover, to invent, to know the unknown, seems so deeply human that we cannot imagine our history without it.
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So many little lives, amounting to nothing. I ask you: What is infinity multiplied by zero? It is hardly worth our discussion.
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