The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.
Whatever the heart desires, it purchases at the cost of soul
The whole Mediterranean, the sculpture, the palm, the gold beads, the bearded heroes, the wine, the ideas, the ships, the moonlight, the winged gorgons, the bronze men, the philosophers - all of it seems to rise in the sour, pungent taste of these black olives between the teeth. A taste older than meat, older than wine. A taste as old as cold water.
We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.
Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.
Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.
I don’t believe one reads to escape reality. A person reads to confirm a reality he knows is there, but which he has not experienced.
Truth is a woman. That is why it is enigmatic.
Life is more complicated than we think, yet far simpler than anyone dares to imagine
They say that if you get bored enough with calamity you can learn to laugh.
Science is the poetry of the intellect and poetry the science of the heart's affections.
Lovers can find nothing to say to each other that has not been said and unsaid a thousand times over. Kisses were invented to translate such nothings into wounds
Does not everything depend on our interpretation of the silence around us?
An idea is like a rare bird which cannot be seen. What one sees is the trembling of the branch it has just left.
Truth disappears with the telling of it.
Try and travel with the eyes of the spirit wide open, and not too much factual information. To tune in, without reverence, idly -- but with real inward attention. It is to be had for the feeling, that mysterious sense of rapport, of identity with the ground. You can extract the essence of a place once you know how. If you just get as still as a needle you'll be there.
History is an endless repetition of the wrong way of living.
Every man is made of clay and diamond, and no woman can nourish both.
A city becomes a world when one loves one of its inhabitants.
It is not peace we seek but meaning.
Who invented the human heart, I wonder? Tell me, and then show me the place where he was hanged.
Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.
…I once found a list of diseases as yet unclassified by medical science, and among these there occurred the word Islomania, which was described as a rare but by no means unknown affliction of spirit. There are people…who find islands somehow irresistible. The mere knowledge that they are on an island, a little world surrounded by the sea, fills them with an indescribable intoxication. These born “islomanes”…are direct descendents of the Atlanteans
It is the duty of every patriot to hate his country creatively.
For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or defeated us in daily life; in this way, not to evade destiny, as the ordinary people try to do, but to fulfil it in its true potential - the imagination.
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