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"Maybe what I'm saying is the world might be evolving the way a person evolves. Right? Like, me for example. Am I getting worse? Am I improving? I don't know. When I was younger, I was healthier, but I was whacked with insecurity. Now I'm older and my problems are deeper, but I'm more equipped to handle them."
"I'm designed to feel slightly dissatisfied."
"Maybe it's just a sense of entitlement. You know, like whenever you feel like you deserve that new pair of shoes. It's OK to want things as long as you don't get pissed off if you don't get 'em. Right?"
"Life's hard. It's supposed to be. If we didn't suffer, we wouldn't learn a thing."
"You realize that most of the people that you meet are trying to get somewhere better, they're trying to make a little bit more cash, trying to get a little more respect, have more people admire them. It's just exhausting."
"I don't have any permanent place here. You know, in eternity, or whatever. And the more I think that, I can't go through life saying that this is no big deal. I mean, this is it! This is actually happening. What do you think is interesting, what do you think is funny, what do you think is important? You know, every day is our last."
"I have this idea of my best self, and I wanted to pursue that even if it might have been overriding my honest self."
"In the moment I remember thinking that it didn't much matter the "Who" of it all. Nobody is gonna be everything to you, and that ultimately it's just a simple action of committing yourself, meeting your responsibilities that matters."
"What is love, if it's not respect, trust, admiration? And I felt all those things. So cut to the present tense: I feel like I'm running a small nursery with somebody I used to date."
"I feel like if someone were to touch me, I'd dissolve into molecules."
"We're just living in a pretense of a marriage responsibility, and all these ideas of how people are supposed to live."
"There's gotta be something more to love than commitment."
"[Celine's Song] Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my thoughts / Let me sing you a waltz / About this one night stand / You were, for me, that night / Everything I always dreamt of in life / But now you're gone / You are far gone / All the way to your island of rain / It was for you just a one night thing / But you were much more to me, just so you know / I don't care what they say / I know what you meant for me that day / I just want another try, I just want another night / Even if it doesn't seem quite right / You meant for me much more than anyone I've met before / One single night with you, little Jesse, is worth a thousand with anybody / I have no bitterness, my sweet / I'll never forget this one night thing / Even tomorrow in other arms, my heart will stay yours until I die / Let me sing you a waltz / Out of nowhere, out of my blues / Let me sing you a waltz / About this lovely one night stand"
"Memories are wonderful things, if you don't have to deal with the past."
"They enjoy the goal but not the process. But the reality of it is that the true work of improving things is in the little achievements of the day."
"I see it in the people that do the real work, and what's sad in a way is that the people that are the most giving, hardworking, and capable of making this world better, usually don't have the ego and ambition to be a leader."
"The concept is absurd. The idea that we can only be complete with another person is evil! Right?"
"You can never replace anyone because everyone is made up of such beautiful specific details."
"I was having this awful nightmare that I was 32. And then I woke up and I was 23. So relieved. And then I woke up for real, and I was 32."
"There are so many things I want to do, but I end up doing not much."
"Even being alone it's better than sitting next to your lover and feeling lonely."
"What if you had a second chance with the one that got away?"
"Ethan Hawke – Jesse"
"Julie Delpy – Celine"