“What is miraculous about the past is that we have succeeded--God knows how--in making thousands and millions of individual human beings, lock well enought into one another to give us what looks like a common past, a shared story.” KnowsGivingHumansWellsLooksStoriesPastIndividualHuman BeingsCommonMillionsKnow HowLocksMiraculousGod Knows Book:Elizabeth Costello Source: Elizabeth Costello
“Occasionally I was so much better that I could go out; but the streets used to put me in such a rage that I would lock myself up for days rather than go out, even if I were well enough to do so! I could not bear to see all those preoccupied, anxious-looking creatures continuously surging along the streets past me! Why are they always anxious? What is the meaning of their eternal care and worry? It is their wickedness, their perpetual detestable malice-that's what it is-they are all full of malice, malice!” IfsWellsEnoughCarePastUsedWorryStreetsBearsCreaturesEternalRageAnxiousPerpetualLocksWickednessMaliceWhat Is The Meaning Book:The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition Source: The Idiot: Easyread Large Edition