"I keep going back as if I'm looking for something I have lost. Back to the motherland, sisterland, fatherland. Back to the beacon, the breast, the smell and taste of the breeze, and the singing of the rain."

-- Heather Nova

#Travel Quotes #Rain Quotes #Smell Quotes

“It is an odd mode of diminishing one's own weakness to ask a friend to lend us the equal force of his.”

Source : "Sketches from Life". Book by Samuel Laman Blanchard, Volumes 1-2, 1846.
“Only the paranoid survive.”
“Redemption just means you just make a change in your life and you try to do right, versus what you were doing, which was wrong.”
“And I ran after that voice through the streets so as not to lose sight of the splendid wreath of bodies gliding over the city, and I realized with anguish in my heart that they were flying like birds and I was falling like a stone, that they had wings and I would never have any.”
“It was a shock to people of the nineteenth century when they discovered, from observations science had made, that many features of the biological world could be ascribed to the elegant principle of natural selection.”
“Every life is punctuated by deaths and departures, and each one causes great suffering that it is better to endure rather than forgo the pleasure of having known the person who has passed away. Somehow our world rebuilds itself after every death, and in any case we know that none of us will last forever. So you might say that life and death lead us by the hand, firmly but tenderly.”

Source : Marguerite Yourcenar, Matthieu Galey (1984). “With Open Eyes: Conversations with Matthieu Galey”, Boston : Beacon Press
“Of God Himself can no man think. And therefore I would leave all that thing that I can think, and choose to my love that thing that I cannot think.”
“We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.”

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