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‘No past, no future, no present. There is only action and consequence.’
We live with the consequence but we do not see, because we cannot see, the action that caused it.’
‘The evil of the small man. Every day, he gets screwed over by those who are more powerful. He knows there is nothing he can do but to grin and bear it. But Fate has a sense of humor. It also gives the small man a little corner of the world, where his word reigns supreme. Maybe that corner is behind a desk moving papers from one pile to another, maybe it is at home as the lord and master over wife and children, maybe it’s grading someone’s exam. It’s then that he does unto others what he believes others do unto him, it’s there that he pays forward his impotence.’
Homer said, “Hunger is insolent and must be fed”. “Hunger knows no friend but its feeder.” That is Aristophanes.’
Humanity lies not in being perfect, but in recognizing that we are not.’
‘Forgiving others is hard. Trust me, I know it. But forgiving yourself, that’s the toughest of them all.’
Life is like that, it brings you good and it brings you bad, and sometimes the good happens only because of the bad that came before it. I know, it does seem sometimes that the world is against us and us alone, and we get really hot and bothered. But we forget, and I do it all the time, that life also gives us nice things, great things, like love and time and children and music and ilish cooked in thick mustard. Why do we get such joy, my son? Just the way it was meant to be.’
‘They say that those that are alive grieve for the dead. They do not know how much those that are dead grieve for those that are alive.
‘Saudade, wasn’t that the word you used?’ the man asked quietly, ‘the little hope that we will find the happiness we once had?’
