"If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all."
"I believe in discovering the love that exists and then trying to understand it. Not to invent a love and try to make it exist, but to find what does exist, and then to see what it is."
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Source: Jesse Ball (2014). “Silence Once Begun: A Novel”, p.183, Vintage
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