Aaron

“Literature is that which he can not read without pain, without choking on truth.”
― Roland Barthes

“If you argue and rankle and contradict, you may achieve a victory sometimes; but it will be an empty victory because you will never get your opponent's good will.”
― Dale Carnegie, How to Win Friends & Influence People

“Am I in love? --yes, since I am waiting. The other one never waits. Sometimes I want to play the part of the one who doesn't wait; I try to busy myself elsewhere, to arrive late; but I always lose at this game. Whatever I do, I find myself there, with nothing to do, punctual, even ahead of time. The lover's fatal identity is precisely this: I am the one who waits.”
― Roland Barthes, A Lover's Discourse: Fragments

“In life, unlike chess, the game continues after checkmate.”
― Isaac Asimov