The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”
— Francoise Sagan · Time
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The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.
“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”
— Francoise Sagan · Time
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“The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.”
“Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.”
“Happiness is a flat expanse without landmarks.”
“I have loved to the point of madness; that which is called madness, that which to me, is the only sensible way to love.”
“Jazz music is an intensified feeling of nonchalance.”
“Writing is a question of finding a certain rhythm. I compare it to the rhythms of jazz. Much of the time life is a sort of rhythmic progression of three characters. If one tells oneself that life is like that, one feels it less arbitrary.”
“A selfish life isn’t God’s purpose for you”
“They would grow old together measuring time by the life spans of a succession of speckled bird dogs.”
“Step smack-flat into”
“While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.”
“It's called a time horizon- a sense of how much time we have remaining. For teenagers, it's vast. It's infinite. But as we get older, it shortens and shortens- and we can't help but feel it. As it shrinks, it makes everything more precious. We appreciate the days more because there are fewer of them to come. And it's really true. I felt it so much today. How fast it all goes. How much we have to be thankful for. What a miracle each breath is.”
“It seems interesting and annoying at the same Time that provocative People are almost always capable of whitewashing themselves (temporarily) through Excuses... They don't escape Self-Betrayal.”