In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles … - Jesse Ball

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Like a compass needle that points north, a man's accusing finger always finds a woman. Always.

Jesse Ball

In searching for a way out of my own troubles, I had found my way into the troubles of others, some long gone, and now I was trying to find my way back out, through their troubles, as if we human beings can ever learn from one another.

Beings, Gone, Long, Troubles, Trying, Way

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If he acts, if he doesn't, it's meaningless. The whole thing goes forward. No one is important. No one at all.

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First, he says, you have to go out into the world. This is not a simple matter of going outside one's door. No, that is simply going out. That's what one does when one is on the way to the store to buy a loaf of bread, some cheese, and a bottle of wine. When one goes out into the world, one is shedding preconceptions of past paths and ideas of past paths, and trying to move freely through an unsubstantiated and new geography.

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Not that believing such things has anything to do with whether they are true. You see that, don't you?

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Different times and different structures make more sense at one point in life than at another.

Different, Make, Point, Points In Life, Structure, Times

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.

Believe, Doe, Love, See, Trying

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