Henri Thunberg > Henri's Quotes

“the truest argument was an old one—the earth is round, let us not be too attached, then, to directions.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“Los espejos y la cópula son abominables, porque multiplican el número de los hombres.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“Мы не столько любим людей за то добро, которое они сделали нам, сколько за то добро, которое сделали им мы.”
― Лев Николаевич Толстой, Война и мир. Том 1/4

“And if we never slept together or otherwise 'realized' our relationship, I would leave Spain with this gorgeous possibility intact, and in my memory could always ponder the relationship I might have had in the flattering light of the subjunctive.”
― Ben Lerner, Leaving the Atocha Station

“They did not know that the misfortune of having average taste is a great deal worse than the misfortune of having no taste at all.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.”
― Benjamin Franklin

“I wasn’t in a hurry. I never have to be in any particular place at any particular time. Let time watch me, not me it.”
― Olga Tokarczuk, Flights

“Follow your bliss.
If you do follow your bliss,
you put yourself on a kind of track
that has been there all the while waiting for you,
and the life you ought to be living
is the one you are living.
When you can see that,
you begin to meet people
who are in the field of your bliss,
and they open the doors to you.
I say, follow your bliss and don't be afraid,
and doors will open
where you didn't know they were going to be.
If you follow your bliss,
doors will open for you that wouldn't have opened for anyone else.”
― Joseph Campbell

“They loved each other, not driven by necessity, by the "blaze of passion" often falsely ascribed to love. They loved each other because everything around them willed it, the trees and the clouds and the sky over their heads and the earth under their feet.”
― Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago

“How did you go bankrupt?"
Two ways. Gradually, then suddenly.”
― Ernest Hemingway, The Sun Also Rises

“You need to avoid certain things in your train of thought: everything random, everything irrelevant. And certainly everything self-important or malicious. You need to get used to winnowing your thoughts, so that if someone says, "What are your thinking about?" you can respond at once (and truthfully) that you are thinking this or thinking that.”
― Marcus Aurelius, Meditations

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain