Nicolas Freeman > Nicolas's Quotes

“just for tonight… just for tonight. be the tenderest thing. in the universe.”
― Nayyirah Waheed, nejma

“Absolutely unmixed attention is prayer.”
― Simone Weil, Gravity and Grace

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

“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“The spectacle is capital accumulated to the point where it becomes image.”
― Guy Debord

“There are those who seek the love of a woman to forget her, to not think about her.”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“What man of us has never felt, walking through the twilight or writing down a date from his past, that he has lost something infinite?”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Dreamtigers

“We accept reality so readily - perhaps because we sense that nothing is real.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships”
― Jorge Luis Borges, Ficciones

“i walk slowly, like one who comes from so far away he doesn't expect to arrive.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“It means much to have loved, to have been happy, to have laid my hand on the living Garden, even for a day.”
― Luis Borges

“Paradise will be a kind of library”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“A book is a physical object in a world of physical objects. It is a set of dead symbols. And then the right reader comes along, and the words—or rather the poetry behind the words, for the words themselves are mere symbols—spring to life, and we have a resurrection of the word.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“I saw all the mirrors on earth and none of them reflected me...”
― Jorge Luis Borges, The Aleph and Other Stories

“Loneliness does not worry me; life is difficult enough, putting up with yourself and with your own habits.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“It only takes two facing mirrors to build a labyrinth.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

“We must love one another or die”
― W.H. Auden

“If equal affection cannot be,
Let the more loving one be me.”
― W.H. Auden

“What the mass media offers is not popular art, but entertainment which is intended to be consumed like food, forgotten, and replaced by a new dish.”
― W. H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

“Love each other or perish”
― Auden

“Music is the best means we have of digesting time.”
― W. H. Auden,

“Every autobiography is concerned with two characters, a Don Quixote, the Ego, and a Sancho Panza, the Self. […] If the same person were to write his autobiography twice, first in one mode and then in the other, the two accounts would be so different that it would be hard to believe that they referred to the same person. In one he would appear as an obsessed creature, a passionate Knight forever serenading Faith or Beauty, humorless and over-life-size; in the other as coolly detached, full of humor and self-mockery, lacking in a capacity for affection, easily bored and smaller than life-size. As Don Quixote seen by Sancho Panza, he never prays; as Sancho Panza seen by Don Quixote, he never giggles.”
― W.H. Auden, The Dyer's Hand and Other Essays

“A single dream is more powerful than a thousand realities.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, Fanshawe

“We dream in our waking moments, and walk in our sleep.”
― Nathaniel Hawthorne, The Scarlet Letter

“If you love somebody, let them go, for if they return, they were always yours. If they don't, they never were.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Ever has it been that love knows not its own depth until the hour of separation.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“Tenderness and kindness are not signs of weakness and despair, but manifestations of strength and resolution.”
― Kahlil Gibran

“I cannot walk through the suburbs in the solitude of the night without thinking that the night pleases us because it suppresses idle details, just as our memory does.”
― Jorge Luis Borges

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