

“Personally I take more satisfaction in understanding people than in passing judgement on them.”
― Chess Story
― Chess Story

“My courage is faith—faith in the eternal resilience of me—that joy’ll come back, and hope and spontaneity”
― The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
― The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“All life is just a progression toward, and then a recession from, one phrase—‘I love you.”
― The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
― The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“You see, I am fate,” it shouted, “and stronger than your puny plans; and I am how-things-turn-out and I am different from your little dreams, and I am the flight of time and the end of beauty and unfulfilled desire; all the accidents and imperceptions and the little minutes that shape the crucial hours are mine. I am the exception that proves no rules, the limits of your control, the condiment in the dish of life.”
― The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories
― The Curious Case of Benjamin Button and Other Jazz Age Stories

“And yet it's probably this moment that I will have loved the most, the one when I accepted the fact that life is just as it appears to me now, quietly heart-breaking.”
― Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile
― Bonjour Tristesse / A Certain Smile
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