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“To do what little good he can with his life. To ask for nothing more, to bow his head, pitifully grateful, God’s humble and grateful servant. Can he imagine anything less like himself? And yet here he is, defeated, relieved, forgiving everything, praying only to be forgiven.”
― Sally Rooney, Intermezzo

“But even old men have young memories.”
― Allen Levi, Theo of Golden

“Paris was a place where one wanted to walk, where to walk—flâner, as the French said—was practically a way of life. (“Ah! To wander over Paris!” wrote Honoré de Balzac. “What an adorable and delectable existence is that! Flânerie is a form of science, it is the gastronomy of the eye.”
― David McCullough, The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris

“Future is not to be feared but confronted" :)
-Halo”
― Alexandra Adornetto