“A quote from Sacha Guitry came to mind: 'Watching someone sleep is like reading a letter that is not addressed to you.”
― The Red Notebook
― The Red Notebook
“In war, rational decisions are made for less than rational situations.”
― The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
― The End Is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses
“Can you experience nostalgia for something that hasn’t happened? We talk of ‘regrets’ about the course of our lives, when we are almost certain we have taken the wrong decision; but one can also be enveloped in a sweet and mysterious euphoria, a sort of nostalgia for what might have been.”
― The Red Notebook
― The Red Notebook
“There, it was over. How was it so easy to disappear from someone else’s life? Perhaps it was with the same ease that you enter it. A chance meeting, a few words exchanged, and a relationship begins. A chance falling out, a few words exchanged and that same relationship is over.”
― The Red Notebook
― The Red Notebook
“If there was one thing that defined adolescence it was hysterical laughter. You never laughed like that again. In adolescence the brutal realisation that the world and life were completely absurd made you laugh until you couldn’t catch your breath, whereas in later life it would only result in a weary sigh.”
― The Red Notebook
― The Red Notebook
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