Eric

“Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it.”
― Hannah Arendt

“The memory has as many moods as the temper, and shifts its scenery like a diorama.”
― George Eliot, Middlemarch

“Nobody is the author or producer of his own life story ... somebody began it and is its subject in the twofold sense, namely, its actor and sufferer ... but nobody is the author ...”
― Hannah Arendt

“in addition to the conditions under which life is given to man on earth, and partly out of them, men constantly create their own, self-made conditions, which, their human origins notwithstanding, possess the same conditioning power as natural things. whatever touches or enters into a sustained relationship with human life immediately assumes the character of a condition of human existence. this is why men, no matter what they do, are always conditioned beings. whatever enters the human world of its own accord or is drawn into it by human effort becomes part of the human condition. ”
― Hannah Arendt