Nicholas > Nicholas's Quotes

“I see myself abandoned, solitary, thrown into a cell without dimensions, where light and shadows are silent phantoms. Within my inner self I find the silence I am seeking. But it leaves me so bereft of any memory of any human being and of me myself, that I transform this impression into the certainty of physical solitude. Were I to cry out — I can no longer see things clearly — my voice would receive the same indifferent echo from the walls of the earth.”
― Clarice Lispector, Near to the Wild Heart

“A beautiful book is a victory won in all the battlefields of human thought.”
― Honoré de Balzac

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”
― Daphne du Maurier

“After nourishment, shelter and companionship, stories are the thing we need most in the world.”
― Philip Pullman

“I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“In the depth of winter, I finally learned that within me there lay an invincible summer.”
― Albert Camus

“Let all of life be an unfettered howl. Like the crowd greeting the gladiator. Don't stop to think, don't interrupt the scream, exhale, release life's rapture.”
― Vladimir Nabokov

“Civilization will not attain to its perfection until the last stone from the last church falls on the last priest.”
― Émile Zola