Life is a box of chocolates

Diálogo entre Midori e Watanabe:

¨- Just remember, life is a box of chocolates.
I shook my head a few times and looked at her.
- Maybe I´m not so smart, but sometimes I don´t know what on earth you´re talking about.
- You know, they´ve got these chocolate assotments, and you like some but you don´t like others? And you eat all the ones you like, and the only ones left are the ones you don´t like as much? I always think about that when something painful comes up. Now I just have to polish these off, and everything´ll be OK. Life is like a box of chocolates.
- I suppose you could call it a philosophy.
- It´s true, though. I´ve learned it from experience.¨

Extracted from the book Norwegian Wood, by Haruki Murakami.