"Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of."

-- Ella Maillart

#Adventure Quotes #Desire Quotes #Spirit Quotes

“Teaching seems to me beyond doubt the greatest of the professions.”
“Two lives that once part are as ships that divide.”
“I think that sometimes the whole larger-than-life gay thing is just another kind of closet. It's easier to be different if you're very different, if you go all-out on purpose. Because that way you can still hide who you really are.”
“I didnâ€™t feel anything but a bone-deep weariness. Like I was suddenly a hundred years old, and I knew at that moment I would have to live a hundred more years, carrying my grief around like a backpack full of stones.”
“For to be contemporary is not necessarily to be part of any movement, to be included in the official representations of national and international art. History shows that it may well be the opposite. It may be that it is the odd, the personal, the curious, the simply honest, that at this moment, when everyone looks to the extreme and flamboyant, constitutes the most interesting manifestation of the spirit of art.”

Source : "Official Art and the Modern Painter". "X, A Quarterly Review" Magazine, Vol. I, No. 1, November 1959.
“As her newest apprentice, it had been my job to go to the market every morning. I had gotten all the jobs no one else wanted, but I had treated each task as if it had been essential to do well -- a trick I had learned from my father.”
“I am too old and stiff-necked to change my memories now.”
“We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years, but if we want to continue, our future is in space.”

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