“The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.”

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Swiss writer 1969

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Context: Honorable beginnings should serve to awaken curiosity, not to heighten people's expectations. We are much better off when reality surpasses our expectations, and something turns out better than we thought it would. This rule does not hold true for bad things: when an evil has been exaggerated, its reality makes people applaud. What was feared as ruinous comes to seem tolerable.

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