“I had forgotten how wonderful it is to stand on a bridge and catch the scent of rain in the air. I had forgotten how much I need to be a part of water, wind, sky.”
― Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
― Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
“Think that you have to die someday, maybe this morning.”
“I think of it all the time, and so I play hooky from the office and let myself bask in the sun.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
“I think of it all the time, and so I play hooky from the office and let myself bask in the sun.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
“We have no rational evidence that there exist another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only to produce and to consume. Scientists or thinkers who try to discover the truth cannot find that higher life by thinking alone, but their own life, spent in search for the truth and neglecting the physical living, is just that higher form of human existence.”
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“I love tunnels. They 're the symbol of hope: sometime it will be bright again.
If by chance it is not night.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
If by chance it is not night.”
― Night Train to Lisbon
“How to stop rushing from place to place, always looking ahead to the next thing while the moment in front of me slipped away unnoticed.”
― Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
― Without Reservations: The Travels of an Independent Woman
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