Movie
1998 · 2h 20m · Comedy · Drama
TMDB 7.4/10 (962 votes)
The lives of several individuals intertwine as they go about their lives in their own unique ways, engaging in acts which society as a whole might find disturbing in a desperate search for human connection.
Directed by Todd Solondz
Box office $3M worldwide
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“This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.”
“I, for one, live only by and for happiness.”
“Only when the happiness is past and we look back on it we do suddenly realize — sometimes with astonishment — how happy we had been.”
“The secret of happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible, horrible, horrible.”
“Quid enim est melius quam memoria recte factorum, et libertate contentum negligere humana?”
“When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive – to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.”
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