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I think the best vacation is the one that relieves me of my own life for a while and then makes me long for it again.

The Swedish he knew was mostly from Bergman films. He had learned it as a college student, matching the subtitles to the sounds. In Swedish, he could only converse on the darkest of subjects.

You can't spend your whole life in front of a screen.

Maybe that was the definition of life everlasting: the belief that the next generation would carry your work forward.

To say it was a beautiful day would not begin to explain it. It was that day when the end of summer intersects perfectly with the start of fall .... [p.218 ff.]

It was too much work to remember things you might not have again, and so one by one they opened up their hands and let them go.