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1 " I would have liked you better as a criminal or a terrorist than as a militant in the cause of happiness. "
― Yasmina Reza , Desolation
2 " I accept that I’ve lost the game of life in the same way that one loses at solitaire. "
3 " What there will be, unfortunately, on the one side is silence, and on the other, evidence of bitterness, evidence of injustice, lack of gentleness, lack of pity. An anatomy of melancholy. "
4 " Which is weird for a Portuguese. The Portuguese like big balls, fat, and car catalogs. "
5 " That is how desirable women are, my boy: a little superficial, a little absentminded, inclined to nebulous ideas. "
6 " The world shrivels me day by day. "
7 " Is there a life outside oneself? Is there a reality outside oneself? "
8 " Life is our impatient desires. Reality is what has to give way. That’s my theory. The rest is women’s nonsense. "
9 " I knew your mother had turned into an American the day I heard her at dinner casually mentioning, excuse the detail, toes and earlobes as erogenous zones. "
10 " Because the only reality is subjective. "
11 " Mankind aspires to comfort. To disturb life is to take the road of genuine desperation. "
12 " In the spineless perversity of your inertia, I detect indifference, even a whiff of condescension. "
13 " I have sired a well-adapted man (read: adapted to everyone except his father). "
14 " Solitude is long. The joys that connect us leave almost no trace. "
15 " Experts flatten the world. "
16 " Día tras día el mundo me ha empequeñecido y hoy es el mundo el que se empequeñece en mí. Así es. La muerte triunfa poco a poco. Nos vamos acostumbrando. Nos vamos acostumbrando a la muerte. "
17 " You should take something to cheer you up a little. Just a little. Just enough so that you don’t seem to be wandering loose all day in Bagneux cemetery. "
18 " When existential depression attacks without warning, your father dyes his hair. "
19 " When a woman starts fussing over some physical defect, deny, deny, deny. Particularly if she says, “Tell me the truth. "
20 " Even when we grow old and find ourselves alone again, we don’t give a shit. "