"The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses: a race whose result we know beforehand but in which we fail to bet on the winner."

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Source : Jean-Dominique Bauby (2008). “The Diving Bell and the Butterfly”, p.94, Knopf Group E-Books

Jean-Dominique Bauby

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“The less there is of eloquence, the more there is of love.”

Source : Charles Perrault (2014). “Little Red Riding Hood and Other Stories: Children's Classics”, p.23, Everyman's Library
“I always think that we know so much more than one would have ever known before. But I don't know if that's really true.”
“Follow the man who seeks the truth; run from the man who has found it.”
“You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.”
“Religions, themselves, are (intellectual) blasphemies.”
“Wealth consists not in having great possessions, but in having few wants.”

Source : Epictetus (2016). “The Philosophy of Epictetus: Golden Sayings and Fragments”, p.87, Courier Dover Publications
“It's a lot to ask of one creature, it's a lot to ask, that he should first behave as if he were not, then as if he were, before being admitted to that peace where he neither is, nor is not, and where the language dies that permits of such expressions.”
“There's this other world where all comedians want to do is make funny videos. Typically what's happened in the past is that a comedian gets a standup career and over the course of 20 years builds it up to the point where Comedy Central gives them a sketch show.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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