Vic

“It seems to be the rule of this world.  Each person has what he doesn’t want, and other people have what he does want.”
― Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat

“Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
― Oscar Wilde

“For as it turns out, one can revisit the past quite pleasantly, as long as one does so expecting nearly every aspect of it to have changed.”
― Amor Towles, A Gentleman in Moscow

“A mandarin fell in love with a courtesan. 'I shall be yours,' she told him, 'when you have spent a hundred nights waiting for me, sitting on a stool, in my garden, beneath my window.' But on the ninety-ninth night, the mandarin stood up, put his stool under his arm, and went away.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments