Maite Pons

“I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

“You have to die a few times before you can really
live.”
― Charles Bukowski, The People Look Like Flowers at Last

“I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
― Simone de Beauvoir

“We are never ‘at home’: we are always outside ourselves. Fear, desire, hope, impel us towards the future; they rob us of feelings and concern for what now is, in order to spend time over what will be – even when we ourselves shall be no more. [C] ‘Calamitosus est animus futuri anxius’ [Wretched is a mind anxious about the future].”
― Michel de Montaigne, The Complete Essays