The Ingredients of Love
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Thats the thing about memories, they can make you sad, even if they are good memories. You like thinking back to them; they're the greatest treasure we have, and yetis always makes you a little sad because something has irreversibly passed.
Obviously, no one suspects men with flowers of evil intentions
...i ricordi, anche se sono belli, a volte rendono malinconici. Fa piacere ripensare a certi momenti, sono il tesoro più grande che abbiamo, ma è triste sapere che qualcosa è finito per sempre e non tornerà più.
Life is a soap bubble, says Chekhov. And mine just burst.
Who needs a blue sky when he's unhappy? Robert was right. The sky whether grey or blue, is cold and unemotional, and ultimately even the sun is only a fireball that, unaffected by everything going on here below on Earth, simply spews in masses of magma into space.
Love is still the most wonderful thing that can happen between two people?
But here in the West, we just have to live with unhappy endings.
The girl in the red coat would remain the the sweet but sore point in my biography: the promise never kept; the mystery that would always remain a mystery. And yet, I regretted nothing. Someday it would be less painful. Someday my heart would be light again. I had to only let it happen.
As a child, I was happy without wanting to be. I mean, I never thought about whether I wanted to be happy again, I just was.
When you get a little older, there comes a time when you realise thats whats called happiness consists only of individual lovely moments, those special times that you remember later on.
Thats how you look at someone you're saying goodbye to forever. Someone you have to say goodbye to. I couldn't understand what was happening here. I couldn't understand what I'd done.
You're the only one I'm waiting for!
Paris became a star among the stars
Tender thoughts of Paris was that that kind of film. It was a bittersweet comedy that hit people where they were most vulnerable: in the hear
You'll never see my favourite film on any screen in the world," I replied with a smile. "Not even here in the Cinema Paradis
They really showed very little understanding for a man and woman who were in the process of forgetting that there was anything or anyone else in the world except the two of them
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