"Modern Chess is too much concerned with things like Pawn structure. Forget it, Checkmate ends the game"

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“Your success will be determined by the quality of your relationships with people.”
“Shame derives its power from being unspeakable.”
“All a girl really wants is for one guy to prove to her that they are not all the same.”
“I go from stool to stool in singles bars hoping to get lucky, but there's never any gum under any of them.”
“One of the great pleasures of going to see a Daniel Day-Lewis film: you haven't seen him in five years. Where have you been? So, it's a special event, right? Well, if you want to go see a movie that I'm in, it still may be a special event for you, but, you don't feel like you don't know where I've been.”
“I will say a lot of dancers do such beautiful things for their body and then they smoke a cigarette. I've never been a smoker, but I realized after taking yoga . . . in ballet you're not encouraged to do a lot of breathing. I think in a weird way, a lot of dancers find relief in actually breathing.”
“I photograph what I do not wish to paint, and I paint what I do not wish to photograph”
“What is so certain of victory as patience?”

Source : Selma Lagerlöf (1914). “The Story of Gösta Berling”

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