"If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison."

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Source : Bruce Chatwin (2012). “The Songlines”, p.162, Random House

Bruce Chatwin

#Home Quotes #Men Quotes #Desert Quotes

“A little rain will fill The lily's cup which hardly moistens the field.”
“Night calls to the sandhills and gathers them under her. She pushes away cities because their sharp lights hurt her soft breast. Even candles make a sore place when they stick in the night.”

Source : Lola Ridge (1920). “Sun-up, and Other Poems”
“Early in my career, I decided I never wanted to get out of shape.”
“I never kill insects. If I see ants or spiders in the room, I pick them up and take them outside. Karma is everything.”
“Well, Japanese fans braced me since 1991 that was my first time I have been to Japan. So I know that Japanese fans has supported me over the years. So it just a lot of love and Wayne Wonder will release more music, more music and more music!”
“The original item looked like a little hand cart with the figure of a man mounted on a platform between the wheels. The man's outstretched arm always pointed south.”
“He had been alone in the world and empty for so long. But she filled him full, and so he believed everything that had been taken out of him might have been for a purpose. To clear space for something better.”

Source : Charles Frazier (1997). “Cold Mountain”, p.347, Atlantic Monthly Press
“We should do good whenever we can and do kindness at all times, for at all times we can.”

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