98 quotes found
“I must be a mermaid, Rango. I have no fear of depths and a great fear of shallow living.”
“I'm restless. Things are calling me away. My hair is being pulled by the stars again.”
“Our life is composed greatly from dreams, from the unconscious, and they must be brought into connection with action. They must be woven together. ”
“At first I protested and rebelled against poetry. I was about to deny my poetic worlds. I was doing violence to my illusions with analysis, science, and learning Henrys language, entering Henrys wo...”
“The man who was once starved may revenge himself upon the world not by stealing just once, or by stealing only what he needs, but by taking from the world an endless toll in payment of something ir...”
“We write to taste life twice, in the moment and in retrospect.”
“I am an excitable person who only understands life lyrically, musically, in whom feelings are much stronger as reason. I am so thirsty for the marvelous that only the marvelous has power over me. A...”
“When you're in my arms, I know you're mine. But your feet are so swift, so swift, they carry you as lightly as wings, I never know where, too fast, too fast away from me.”
“Love the great narcotic was the revealer in the alchemist's bottle rendering visible the most untraceable substances. Love the great narcotic was the agent provocateur exposing all the secret selve...”
“You are that to me, an oasis. You drug me and at the same time you give me strength.”
“In this instant of danger they realized they were each other's reason for living, and into this instant they threw their whole being.”
“So many broken promises, each day an aborted wish, a lost object, a misplaced unread book, cluttering the room like an attic with discarded possessions.”
“Every word spoken in the past accumulated forms and colors in the self. What flows through the veins besides blood is the distillation of every act committed, the sediment of all the visions, wishe...”
“And it is that which draws me to you, too, for you are the tropics, you have the sun in you, and the softness and the clarity...”
“The magic beauty of simultaneity, to see the loved one rushing toward you at the same moment you are rushing toward him, the magic power of meeting, exactly at midnight to achieve union, the illusi...”
“His entire body was pleading for reassurance, and if her whole love was not enough what else could she give him to cure his doubt?”
“No man and woman know what will be born in the darkness of their intermingling; so much besides children, so many invisible births, exchanges of soul and character, blossoming of unknown selves, li...”
“The potion drunk by lovers is prepared by no one but themselves. The potion is the sum of one's whole existence.”
“Every lover could be brought to trial as the murderer of his own love. When something hurts you, saddens you, I rush to avoid it, to alter it, to feel as you do, but you turn away with a gesture of...”
“The fascination exerted by one human being over another is not what he emits of his personality at the present instant of encounter but a summation of his entire being which gives off this powerful...”
