15 quotes found
“Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.”
“Yet does illustrating in a new way signify a new way of seeing?”
“he quit drinking coffee, and naturally, his brain stopped working.”
“Tell me then, does love make one a fool or do only fools fall in love?”
“Books, which we mistake for consolation, only add depth to our sorrow. ”
“Contrary to what is commonly believed, all murderers are men of extreme faith rather than unbelievers.”
“The beauty and mystery of this world only emerges through affection, attention, interest and compassion . . . open your eyes wide and actually see this world by attending to its colors, details and...”
“Where there is a true art and genuine virtuosity the artist can paint an incomparable masterpiece without leaving even a trace of his identity.”
“Perhaps one day someone from a distant land will listen to this story of mine. Isn't this what lies behind the desire to be inscribed in the pages of a book? Isn't it just for the sake of this deli...”
“...it seemed to me that the entire world was like a palace with countless rooms whose doors opened into one another. We were able to pass from one room to the next only by exercising out memories a...”
“Maybe you've understood by now that for men like myself, that is, melancholy men for whom love, agony, happiness and misery are just excuses for maintaining eternal loneliness, life offers neither ...”
“What we essentially want is to draw something unknown to us in all its shadowiness, not something we know in all its illumination.”
“Let me first state forthright that contrary to what we've often read in books and heard from preachers, when you are a woman, you don't feel like the Devil. ”
“Maybe you've heard the story of the man who was so driven by this curiosity that he roamed among soldiers in battlefields. He sought a man who had died and returned to life amid the wounded struggl...”
“In the cities of the European Franks, women roam about exposing not only their faces, but also their brightly shining hair (after their necks, their most attractive feature), their arms, their beau...”