When I actually get around to doing my reading for class (an ever rarer occurrence, it seems), I find such interesting quotes. First the one from Solibo that no one else seemed to appreciate, and now this one.
"But in life there is nothing solved, or which can easily be solved, or even has any chance of being solved at all. Everything is hard and complicated, expensive and accompanied by disproportionately high risk...Man is tormented all his life and never has what he needs, let alone what he wants."
from The Bridge on the Drina by Ivo Andric
That seems really hopeless. I'm glad that I can look forward to something after this present life, which has a bit more to offer.
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Currently Reading:
- Natasha's Dance
- The Silmarillion
Have Read Recently:
- Being Consumed
- Boy
- The Narnian
- The Good Thief
- The Awakening
- Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell
- My Antonia
- Interpreter of Maladies
- The Seven Storey Mountain
- Of Mice and Men
- The Brothers K
- With God in Russia
- North and South
- Blood Meridian
- Persuasion
- Anne of Green Gables
- East of Eden
- Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- The Man Who Was Thursday
- The Moviegoer
1 comment:
sounds like ecclesiastes...
It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with. I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
What is crooked cannot be made straight,
and what is lacking cannot be counted.
I said in my heart, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge." And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.
For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
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