Charles D'Ambrosio (Charles Anthony D'Ambrosio, Jr) Quotes
Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.
Charles D'Ambrosio
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Unfathomable mind, now beacon, now sea.
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When I did well, as a boy you used to put me in prison. Now if I do it being grown up, you will do worse to me.
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But Sasha who after all had no English blood in her but was from Russia where the sunsets are longer, the dawns less sudden, and sentences often left unfinished from doubt as to how best to end them.
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The willing, destiny guides them; the unwilling, destiny drags them.
Seneca the Younger
Behind each piece, animating every attempt, is the echo of a precarious faith, that we are more intimately bound to one another by our kindred doubts than our brave conclusions.
Charles D'Ambrosio
