Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Sayings From Countries
Again a questionnaire.
"I'm perfectly happy with my life." "luck," he said softly, "is very much more than just freedom from pain."
"That may be, but I do not want to risk again, go through the same misery as it was twenty years ago. I'm with the freedom from pain to peace."
"How can you say? It is one thing that matters in life, passion, the only one!"
Many responses came to my mind - that what we call passion is only a childish desire for excitement often, the desire to be the center of attention - but the words died on my lips when I saw his face. It was so full of intensity, so full of concentration. I looked away. What in the world he said that? What was a passion that made his life so exciting? And who was the object of that passion? It was strange, in connection with a man of our age to think of passion. And yet, perhaps he was right. If he spoke of love, he even had certainly right. But the word love Austin had not even used.
"What do you mean by love?" I wanted to know. "Do you have to ask me that? I believe that we exist not for ourselves, but only to the extent that we of the imagination of another human being be created by us as fully as possible in the lives of other people invade our imagination, intellectual, physical and emotional - and with all the conflicts that are inevitable because "" I do not think.. I believe that we are completely alone. What you're describing here is a temporary state of obsession. "I smiled." Temporarily, even if he persists in some cases a lifetime. "
" We are only alone if we want it. " I shared his opinion not answered, but not on it. I was curious. "Differs what you call passion, because so much of love and ? Affection "
He thought for a moment before saying:" I would put it this way: it is passion in the game when the object of your passion may ask you to do something that breaks all your moral principles, and you you still willing to explain. "
" You mean something like stealing or lying? "
He smiled." Yes, if you will. Or even worse, if you can imagine it at all "
(from: Charles Palliser:". The Black Cathedral ")
My English trainee has yesterday adopted by us, his legal training is completed. pity, I always liked him very much, his teaching was very entertaining.
But he left us to conclude with some good advice..
"If you must choose your major courses, choose subjects that interest you does not matter if you can it well or not, even if you then only conceded three or four, is The still better than if you then bored for several hours per week in subjects that give you nothing. "
rumored he had a four in English on his high school diploma;)
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