“Life Will Shape Itself”
“I think how lonely it would be to just bump along, to hang on, while life drives one about. I believe in the fates, in a kind of fundamental predestination, but fused with home-cured strategy. I remember, when I was still very young, feeling relieved, reading Tolstoy. ‘Life will shape itself,’ he promised. Though I didn’t buy it completely, I was so happy to think life might do even a part of its own work, that I could rest once in a while…”
–”A Thousand Days in Venice,” Marlena De Blasi
January 18th, 2009 at 8:37 am
This is so great, this woman has articulated much better than I ever could my exact philosophy about how life works.