How could I have been so ignorant? she thinks. So stupid, so unseeing, so given over to carelessness. But without such ignorance, such carelessness, how could we live? If you knew what was going to happen, if you knew everything that was going to happen next—if you knew in advance the consequences of your own actions—you'd be doomed. You'd be as ruined as God. You'd be a stone. You'd never eat or drink or laugh or get out of bed in the morning. You'd never love anyone, ever again. You'd never dare to.
Margaret AtwoodTag: wisdom love despair loneliness sorrow ignorance insight carelessness
Being cautious ain't merely look after myself,
but also keep me away from others' carelessness.
Tag: carelessness cautious keep-me-away look-after-myself
I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.
Rosamund LuptonTag: guilt attitude betrayal mental-health carelessness
Overconfidence precedes carelessness.
Toba BetaTag: overconfidence carelessness
Young people are careless of their virginity; one day they may have it and the next not.
Sylvia Townsend WarnerTag: virginity young-people carelessness
Non riuscivo a perdonarlo e neanche trovarlo simpatico, ma capii che dal suo punto di vista ciò che aveva fatto era pienamente giustificato. Era stato tutto molto sbadato e pasticciato. Erano gente sbadata, Tom e Daisy: sfracellavano cose e persone e poi si ritiravano nel loro denaro o nella loro ampia sbadataggine o in ciò che comunque li teneva uniti, e lasciavano che altri mettessero a posto il pasticcio che avevano fatto.
F. Scott FitzgeraldTag: italiano carelessness il-grande-gatsby sbadataggine
Better poverty without a care than wealth with its many obligations.
AesopTag: wealth poverty carelessness obligations
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