Jude Couto

“As to the kind of truth one finds in books, it is a truth that enables us sometimes to discern what things are not, without ever enabling us to discover what they are.”
― Anatole France, The Revolt of the Angels

“his life was gently gliding along like a stream that reflects the heaven and fertilizes the fields.”
― Anatole France, Penguin Island

“If you listen to birds, every day will have a song in it.”
― Kyo Maclear, Birds Art Life: A Year of Observation

“The world is beautiful and dangerous, and joyful and sad, and ungrateful and giving, and full of so, so many things. The world is new and it is old. It is big and it is small. The world is fierce and it is kind, and we, every one of us, are in it.”
― Mark Twain & Philip Stead