jacques the fatalist
MASTER:
"Just tell the thing as it is."
JACQUES:
"That's no easy. Has not everyone his own character,
his own interests, his own tastes and passions according to
which he either exaggerates or attenuates everything?
Tell the thing as it is, you say!...That might no even
happen twice in one day in the whole of a large town. And is the
person who listens any better qualified to listen than the person
who speaks? No. Which is why in the whole of a large town it can
hardly happen twice in one day that someone's words are understood
in the same way as they are spoken."
"Just tell the thing as it is."
JACQUES:
"That's no easy. Has not everyone his own character,
his own interests, his own tastes and passions according to
which he either exaggerates or attenuates everything?
Tell the thing as it is, you say!...That might no even
happen twice in one day in the whole of a large town. And is the
person who listens any better qualified to listen than the person
who speaks? No. Which is why in the whole of a large town it can
hardly happen twice in one day that someone's words are understood
in the same way as they are spoken."