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Quotes from Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey
I recently watched Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, and here are some quotes that I loved:
The clearest view of a man is from below.
This made me go wow and reminded me of the common saying: judge a man by how he treats those less fortunate than him.
You’re a man who think he can control his own fate, but you can’t. You just have to live it.
The most we want is what the most we can’t have, and what the most we can’t have is what we already had and lost.