“The unexpected connections we make might not last, yet stay with us forever”
Source: Lost in Translation
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Sofia Coppola 1
screenwriter and director from the United States 1971Related quotes
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Context: Back home, these lessons were taught in songs and stories passed along by grandmothers, wise women who held a cherished place in the circle of community. I thought someday to take my place among them. But the war had broken the cycle and torn millions of people away from the bosoms of their mothers. We were forever searching to recapture all that we had lost … connections to blood, to bones, to earth.
And connections resurface … refuse to be denied.
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“Nothing mortals make lasts; nothing the gods make endures forever.”
An unnamed goddess
The Queen of Attolia (2000)
Source: Howards End (1910), Ch. 22
Context: She might yet be able to help him to the building of the rainbow bridge that should connect the prose in us with the passion. Without it we are meaningless fragments, half monks, half beasts, unconnected arches that have never joined into a man. With it love is born, and alights on the highest curve, glowing against the grey, sober against the fire. Happy the man who sees from either aspect the glory of these outspread wings. The roads of his soul lie clear, and he and his friends shall find easy-going.
“They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever.”
