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#1

“And off in the far distance, the gold on the wings of the angel atop the bell tower of San Marco flashed in the sun, bathing the entire city in its glistening benediction.”
― Donna Leon, Death in a Strange Country

tags: church, italy, venice

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#2

“In Venice, if you didn’t know where you were going, you usually ended up in the Piazza and since that was always true, maybe it was always where you were going.”
― Scott Stavrou, Losing Venice

tags: venice

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#3

“A sunset is the sun’s fiery kiss to the night.”
― Crystal Woods, Write like no one is reading 3

tags: dusk, fiery, kiss, night-sky, sundowno, sunset, sunsets, word-junkies

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#4

“The sun was a fiery furnace of gold, but finally it set in the west and the cosmos glittered like a million burning embers, briefly reminding Awa of poetry readings under starry skies in Timbuktu”
― Rehan Khan, A Tudor Turk

tags: cosmos, stars, sunset, timbuktu

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#5

“We walk into the olive grove and sit in the dry grass on the bluff. The monastery and the whole world lie before us. Purples, yellows, pinks and blues but all washed, hazy, indefinite, dreamy. The world was dissolving, vanishing. And if you half-closed your eyes, you could see yourself from afar, dissolving in the haze. You could see yourself turning into light.”
― Ferenc Máté, The Hills of Tuscany

tags: sunset

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#6

“Paris was all so... Parisian. I was captivated by the wonderful wrongness of it all - the unfamiliar fonts, the brand names in the supermarket, the dimensions of the bricks and paving stones. Children, really quite small children, speaking fluent French!”
― David Nicholls, Us

tags: paris, places, travel

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#7

“Life is short and we have never too much time for gladdening the hearts of those who are traveling the dark journey with us. Oh, be swift to love, make haste to be kind.”
― Henri-Frédéric Amiel, Amiel's Journal

tags: kindness, love, struggle

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#8

“It's temples and palaces did seem
Like fabrics of enchantment pil'd to heaven.”
― Percy Bysshe Shelley, Julian and Maddalo: A Conversation

tags: artists-life, europe, european, grand-canal, inspirational, italy, travel, travel-writing, venezia, venice

26 likes

#9

“And thus ever by day and night, under the sun and under the stars, climbing the dusty hills and toiling along the weary plains, journeying by land and journeying by sea, coming and going so strangely, to meet and to act and react on one another, move all we restless travellers through the pilgrimage of life.”
― Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

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#10

“It’s a sensation I’ve come to love as I’ve traveled more, the way a new place signals itself instantly and without pretense. The air has a different weight from what you’re used to; it carries smells you can’t quite identify, a faint whiff of wood smoke or diesel fuel, maybe, or the sweetness of something blooming in the trees. The same sun comes up, but looking slightly different from what you know.”
― Michelle Obama, Becoming

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#11

“I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar

tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature

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#12

“The mountains are calling and I must go.”
― John Muir

tags: nature

2550 likes

#13

“He found himself wondering at times, especially in the autumn, about the wild lands, and strange visions of mountains that he had never seen came into his dreams.”
― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

tags: autumn, wanderlust

418 likes

#14

“In Spain the dead are more alive than the dead of any other country in the world.”
― Federico Garcia Lorca

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#15

“Liquor is the kiss of the angels as well as the curse of the devil. It can conceal but also can reveal”
― Thrity Umrigar, The Space Between Us

tags: bottle, cenceal, drink, liquor, reveal

14 likes

#16

“That was how I met her, in a bar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, she was drinking and watching, and that was why I liked her, I thought she would be fun to have fun with.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

tags: boy, drink, fun, girl, love, meet

6 likes

#17

“I like to drink when I travel. It enhances things, don’t you think?”
― Patricia Highsmith, Strangers on a Train

tags: drink, travel

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#18

“The hotel bar was quiet and dark, with the kind of mood that promotes good talk and serious drinking.”
― George R.R. Martin, Dreamsongs, Volume I

tags: alchohol, bar, drinking-alcohol, drinking-quotes

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#19

“I was enjoying myself now. I had taken two finger bowls of champagne and the scene had changed before my eyes into something significant, elemental and profound.”
― F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Great Gatsby

tags: alcohol

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#20

“I can’t think of any greater happiness than to be with you all the time, without interruption, endlessly, even though I feel that here in this world there’s no undisturbed place for our love, neither in the village nor anywhere else; and I dream of a grave, deep and narrow, where we could clasp each other in our arms as with clamps, and I would hide my face in you and you would hide your face in me, and nobody would ever see us any more.”
― Franz Kafka, Franz Kafka's The Castle

1251 likes

#21

“There are no rules of architecture for a castle in the clouds.”
― G.K. Chesterton

tags: imagination

412 likes

#22

“On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.”
― Shirley Jackson, We Have Always Lived in the Castle

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#23

“This tower, patched unevenly with black ivy, arose like a mutilated finger from among the fists of knuckled masonry and pointed blasphemously at heaven. At night the owls made of it an echoing throat; by day it stood voiceless and cast its long shadow.”
― Mervyn Peake, Titus Groan

tags: castle, description, gothic, owl, purple, ruin, tower

132 likes

#24

“It was November--the month of crimson sunsets, parting birds, deep, sad hymns of the sea, passionate wind-songs in the pines. Anne roamed through the pineland alleys in the park and, as she said, let that great sweeping wind blow the fogs out of her soul.”
― L. M. Montgomery, Anne of Green Gables

tags: anne-of-the-island

990 likes

#25

“A complicated structure? Undoubtedly. But after all, the cathedral of Milan is complicated too, and you still look at it with awe.”
― Kató Lomb

tags: cathedral, grammar, languages, milan, multilingual, polyglot

2 likes

#26

“Every one of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down.”
― Ryu Murakami, Coin Locker Babies

tags: travel

297 likes

#27

“If a man is to live, he must be all alive, body, soul, mind, heart, spirit.”
― Thomas Merton, Thoughts in Solitude

tags: carpe-diem, life, spirituality

311 likes

#28

“Around here, however, we don't look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths.”
― Walt Disney Company

tags: creativity, curiosity, inspirational

1514 likes

#29

“People are like cities: We all have alleys and gardens and secret rooftops and places where daisies sprout between the sidewalk cracks, but most of the time all we let each other see is is a postcard glimpse of a skyline or a polished square. Love lets you find those hidden places in another person, even the ones they didn't know were there, even the ones they wouldn't have thought to call beautiful themselves.”
― Hilary T. Smith, Wild Awake

134 likes

#30

“A star shoots bleeding across the skyline, a companion to the black wind. Silence comes sweeping across everything.”
― Joe Bousquet

tags: silence, star, wind

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