"I believe that by living as athletes we live more fully."

“For a solo work I need a definite idea. For the present I have none.”

“When was the last time you read a book? The truth now. And picture books don't count-I mean something with print in it.”

“I think life is about having the mixture of the curiosity of an older person and the imagination of a child.”

“Iris all hues, roses, and jessamine Reared high their flourished heads between, and wrought Mosaic; underfoot the violet, Crocus, and hyacinth with rich inlay Broidered the ground, more coloured than with stone Of costliest emblem: other creature here Beast, bird, insect, or worm durst enter none; Such was their awe of man.”

“Now is the moment that never ends.”

“Their guilt made me eloquent because I was not its victim.”

“Alas! we must suffer ourselves before we can feel for others.”

Source : Émile Gaboriau (2015). “File”, p.41, Booklassic

“Africa is mystic; it is wild; it is a sweltering inferno; it is a photographer's paradise, a hunter's Valhalla, an escapist's Utopia. It is what you will, and it withstands all interpretations. It is the last vestige of a dead world or the cradle of a shiny new one. To a lot of people, as to myself, it is just 'home'. It is all these things but one thing - it is never dull.”

Source : Beryl Markham (2012). “West with the Night”, p.14, Open Road Media