That is the beginning of knowledge—the discovery of something we do not understand.” Before

Nothing is more sad than the death of an illusion.

Being with all those great bowlers was the greatest three days I ever had.

his experience, premonitions of disaster were almost invariably proved false, and the road to Calvary entered on with the very

(In response to 'In the end moral and political truths have to proved on the body.[ ie put one's body on the line to prove a truth]  That's a very dangerous idea. It comes quite close to saying that the willingness to suffer proves the rightness of belief. But is doesn't. The most it can ever prove is the believer's sincerity. And not always that. some people just like suffering.

Fathers remain opaque to their sons, he thought, largely because the sons find it so hard to believe that there's anything in the father worth seeing. Until he's dead, and it's too late. Mercifully, doctors are also opaque to their patients.

On the face of it he seemed to be congratulating himself on dealing with patients more humanely than Yealland, but then why the mood of self-accusation? In the dream he stood in Yealland’s place. The dream seemed to be saying, in dream language, don’t flatter yourself. There is no distinction.

Another person's life, observed from the outside, always has a shape and definition that one's own life lacks.

Pat Barker

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