Ryudi1998

“But I will. I'll say just what you wish and I'll do what you wish and then you will never want any other girls, will you? She looked at me very happily. 'I'll do what you want and say what you want and then I'll be a great success, won't I?
'Yes.'
'What would you like me to do now that you're all ready?’
'Come to the bed again.'
'All right. I'll come.’
'Oh, darling, darling, darling,' I said.
'You see,' she said. 'I do anything you want.'
'You're so lovely.'
'I'm afraid I'm not very good at it yet.'
'You're lovely.'
'I want what you want. There isn't any me any more. Just what you want.’
'You sweet.'
I'm good. Aren't I good? You don't want any other girls, do you?'
'No.'
'You see? I'm good. I do what you want.”
― Hemingway Ernest, A Farewell to Arms

“Whatever you had him do, Shindo was always better than average. He was quick to grasp just about everything. But on the other hand, up to the last, he was never best in anything. I think maybe he was scared. Deathly afraid of a moment when he'd devote himself to something, then blank out and think "What was I doing?"
So he could never give all of himself to just one thing. I wished I could be like that. And that must be why Shindo always liked things which were clearly pointless. Games from generations past, useless music, his unreasonably huge vacuum tube radio. I love that sense of productiveness.”
― Sugaru Miaki, いたいのいたいの、とんでゆけ

“It is better to be a warrior in a garden, than a gardener in a war.”
― Miyamoto Musashi, The Book of Five Rings

“The ability to play chess is the sign of a gentleman. The ability to play chess well is the sign of a wasted life.”
― Paul Morphy