- There are few things humans are more dedicated to than unhappiness.
- Feeling suddenly attached to life when we realize the imminence of death suggests that it was perhaps not life itself which we had lost the taste for so long as there was no end in sight, but our quotidian version of it, that our dissatisfactions were more the result of a certain way of living than of anything irrevocably morose about the human experience.
- When 2 people part, it is the one who is not in love who makes the tender speeches.
- An advantage of not going by too fast is that the world has a chance of becoming more interesting in the process.
Book gets progressively more boring after this. Followed my cardinal rule – if a book does not interest you in the first 50 pages, find another one.