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Until Autumn
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I’ve often thought that miscommunication is at the heart of the greatest tragedies. That it forms the basis of some of the deepest sadnesses. It is the uncertainty of what might have been said, and what might have followed. It’s the not
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“Eventualities. A good woman can look far down the line and smell what is coming before a man even gets a sniff of it.”
― Foster
― Foster
“The questions I would have liked to ask people were: ‘Are you in love? What are you reading?”
― A Certain Smile
― A Certain Smile
“I kept thinking about the uneven quality of time--the way it was almost always so empty, and then with no warning came a few days that felt so dense and alive and real that it seemed indisputable that that was what life was, that its real nature had finally been revealed. But then time passed and unthinkably grew dead again, and it turned out that that fullness had been an aberration and might never come back.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
“My love of pleasure seems to be the only consistent side of my character. Is it because I have not read enough?”
― Bonjour Tristesse
― Bonjour Tristesse
“Most people, the minute they meet you, were sizing you up for some competition for resources. It was as if everyone lived in fear of a shipwreck, where only so many people would fit on the lifeboat, and they were constantly trying to stake out their property and identify dispensable people – people they could get rid of.... Everyone is trying to reassure themselves: I'm not going to get kicked off the boat, they are. They're always separating people into two groups, allies and dispensable people... The number of people who want to understand what you're like instead of trying to figure out whether you get to stay on the boat - it's really limited.”
― The Idiot
― The Idiot
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