28 quotes found
“cheered by the optimism that one sometimes had at the beginning of strenuous exercise, a kind of helium that filled our lungs and carried us along”
“lmost everything looked more beautiful from a distance, the earth becoming more perfect as one ascended and came closer to seeing the world from God's eyes, man's hovels and palaces disappearing, t...”
“Remember, you're not half of anything, you're twice of everything.”
“We lie in wait for the right moment and the just cause, which, at this moment, is simply wanting to live.”
“If God did not exist, then neither did divine punishment, but this meant nothing to ghosts who did not need God.”
“I had the vertiginous feeling one gets standing at the precipice of an unresolved plan, for I had brought Bon and myself to the brink of disaster without knowing how to save us. But was not this ho...”
“Priests always had much attention lavished on them by their starstruck fans,those devout housewives and wealthy congregants who treated them as if they were guardians of the velvet rope blocking en...”
“Every full bottle of alcohol has a message in it, a surprise that one will not discover until one drinks it”