“there were moments in life when violence was necessary to save lives”
“If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?”
“There are such moments in life, when, in order for heaven to open, it is necessary for a door to close.”
“Had they known at these moments to be quietly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”
“Had they known at these moments to be queitly joyful? Most likely not. People mostly did not know enough when they were living life that they were living it.”
“That life is worth living is the most necessary of assumptions, and were it not assumed, the most impossible of conclusions.”