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“To be a man is, precisely, to be responsible. It is to feel shame at the sight of what seems to be unmerited misery. It is to take pride in a victory won by one's comrades. It is to feel, when setting one's stone, that one is contributing to the building of the world.”
― Wind, Sand and Stars
― Wind, Sand and Stars
“Behind all seen things lies something vaster; everything is but a path, a portal or a window opening on something other than iteself. ”
― Wind, Sand and Stars
― Wind, Sand and Stars
“A life, remembered, is a series of photographs and disconnected short films.”
― Station Eleven
― Station Eleven
“One cannot live any longer on refrigerators, on politics, on balance-sheets and cross-word puzzles. One cannot live any longer without poetry, colour and love.”
― Wind, Sand and Stars
― Wind, Sand and Stars
“The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. Hours must pass before their glimmer hardens into the frozen glitter of diamonds. I shall have a long wait before I witness the soundless frolic of the shooting stars. In the profound darkness of certain nights I have seen the sky streaked with so many trailing sparks that it seemed to me a great gale must be blowing through the outer heavens. ”
― Wind, Sand and Stars
― Wind, Sand and Stars
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