Rea

“What could I say? Maybe this: the man hunched over his motorcycle can focus only on the present instant of his flight; he is caught in a fragment of time cut off from both the past and the future; he is wrenched from the continuity of time; he is outside time; in other words, he is in a state of ecstasy; in that state he is unaware of his age, his wife, his children, his worries, and so he has no fear, because the source of fear is in the future, and a person freed of the future has nothing to fear.”
― Milan Kundera, Slowness

“Walter Mitty: To see the world, things dangerous to come to, to see behind walls, draw closer, to find each other, and to feel. That is the purpose of life.”
― The Secret Life of Walter Mitty

“From the smile she gave me, anybody would have thought she’d spent the whole evening waiting for me. It was a smile that isolated the person that was addressed to, raising him to heights he would never have suspected he could conquer. A smile like a blow to the head, in which only one thing remains unequivocal. That she didn’t give a damn about you.”
― Gianfranco Calligarich, Last Summer in the City

“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.”
― Walter Tevis