meaning

“Insight,” he said, “is almost always a rearrangement of fact.”

a way of overcompensating: we learn to pretend we have opinions because deep in our own hearts, we really don’t.

“Maybe you haven’t developed a passion yet because you’ve spent your entire life doing what others wanted you to do.”

There are no gods in the universe, no nations, no money, no human rights, no laws, and no justice outside the common imagination of human beings.

“You know, Jamieson, this life we think we’re living isn’t real. It’s just a shadow play, and I for one will be glad when the lights go out on it. In the dark, all the shadows disappear.”

I want to stick to facts. I gave up trying to understand long ago. As soon as I feel I want to understand something I immediately have to renounce facts, whereas I have decided to stay true to facts…’

I’m a flea on the face of the earth, and I admit in all humility that I cannot understand in the least why things are the way they are.

a life of short duration, like that, for example, of her dead boy, could be so rich in joy and love that it could contain more meaning than a life lasting eighty years.

If you tell me how you get your feeling of importance, I’ll tell you what you are.