David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns Of Jacob De Zoet Quotes
So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .
We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love.
How gleefully life shreds our well crafted plans.
The truth of a myth, your Honor, is not its words but its patterns.
I wish, he thinks, spoken words could be captured and kept in a locket.
What man ain't the honestest cove in his own eyes?" Grote's round face is a bronze moon in the dark. "'Tain't good intentions what paves the road to hell: it's self-justifyin's.
The human understanding is like a false mirror, which, receiving rays irregularly, distorts and discolors the nature of things by mingling its own nature.
But thought has no eyelids to close or ears to block...
Anna would like you, he thinks, looking into her face. Anna would like you.
I find a certain comfort, " confesses Marinus, "in humanity's helplessness.
Orito banishes all thoughts of Jacob de Zoet, and recalls Jacob de Zoet.
He thinks of the all steps that gathered this party and marvels at the weaverless looms of fortune.