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“A Chinese poet many centuries ago noticed that to re-create something in words is like being alive twice.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“Send me out into another life lord because this one is growing faint I do not think it goes all the way.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun
― Under the Tuscan Sun
“Life offers you a thousand chances... all you have to do is take one.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
― Under the Tuscan Sun: At Home in Italy
“Where the mind is without fear and the head is held high;
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”
― Gitanjali
Where knowledge is free;
Where the world has not been broken up into fragments by narrow domestic walls;
Where words come out from the depth of truth;
Where tireless striving stretches its arms toward perfection;
Where the clear stream of reason has not lost its way into the dreary desert sand of dead habit;
Where the mind is led forward by thee into ever-widening thought and action -
Into that heaven of freedom, my Father, let my country awake.”
― Gitanjali
“A lifelong insomniac, I sleep like one newly dead every night and dream deeply harmonious dreams of swimming along with the current in a clear green river, playing and at home in the water. On the first night, I dreamed that the real name of the house was not Bramasole but Cento Angeli, One Hundred Angels, and that I would discover them one by one. Is it bad luck to change the name of a house, as it is to rename a boat? As a trepid foreigner, I wouldn't. But for me, the house now has a secret name as well as its own name.”
― Under the Tuscan Sun
― Under the Tuscan Sun
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