Daphne

“When you set sail for Ithaca,
wish for the road to be long,
full of adventures, full of knowledge.”
― C.P. Cavafy

“I never understood how anyone could feel small compared with the universe. After all, man knows how overwhelmingly large it is, and a few others things besides, and that means he is not small. The fact that man has discovered all this precisely proves his greatness.”
― Harry Mulisch, The Discovery of Heaven

“the feeling of being lost in time and geography with months and years hazily sparkling ahead in a prospect of inconjecturable magic”
― Patrick Leigh Fermor

“Here is the faithful night, the cool night which I called for amid the noise of lights, drink and the tumult of desire.”
― Albert Camus, The Sea Close By