Primum Vivere
Saturday, August 05, 2006
Primum Vivere
"...'You mean you still don't understand that nobody cares about anybody?'
She looked at him. 'You're strange, Maurice. You've seen people at their most cynical, their most disillusioned, and at the same time you're not unhappy. I mean, not really unhappy inside! Am i wrong?'
'No.'
'So what makes it all right, then?'
'My certainty that deep down i'm a free man,' he said, after thinking for a moment. It's a constant, precious possession, and whether I keep it or lose it is up to me and no one else. I desperately want the insanity we're living through to end. I desperately want what has begun to finish. In a word, I desperately want this tragedy to be over and for us to try to survive it, that's all. What's important is to live: Primum vivere. One day at a time. To survive, to wait, to hope...'"
--- Chapter 28 of Storm in June, from Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
"...'You mean you still don't understand that nobody cares about anybody?'
She looked at him. 'You're strange, Maurice. You've seen people at their most cynical, their most disillusioned, and at the same time you're not unhappy. I mean, not really unhappy inside! Am i wrong?'
'No.'
'So what makes it all right, then?'
'My certainty that deep down i'm a free man,' he said, after thinking for a moment. It's a constant, precious possession, and whether I keep it or lose it is up to me and no one else. I desperately want the insanity we're living through to end. I desperately want what has begun to finish. In a word, I desperately want this tragedy to be over and for us to try to survive it, that's all. What's important is to live: Primum vivere. One day at a time. To survive, to wait, to hope...'"
--- Chapter 28 of Storm in June, from Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
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