“The best teacher is experience and not through someone's distorted point of view”
― On the Road
― On the Road
“This is your life and its ending one moment at a time.”
― Fight Club
― Fight Club
“I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.”
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
― Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“We start off with high hopes, then we bottle it. We realise that we’re all going to die, without really finding out the big answers. We develop all those long-winded ideas which just interpret the reality of our lives in different ways, without really extending our body of worthwhile knowledge, about the big things, the real things. Basically, we live a short disappointing life; and then we die. We fill up our lives with shite, things like careers and relationships to delude ourselves that it isn’t all totally pointless.”
― Trainspotting
― Trainspotting
“Those who make the worst use of their time are the first to complain of its brevity.”
― Les Caractères
― Les Caractères
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