“Distances did nothing. It’s all here.”
Voces (1943)
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“Near me, nothing but distances.”
Cerca de mí no hay más que lejanías.
Voces (1943)
“The distance is nothing; it is only the first step that is difficult.”
La distance n'y fait rien; il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte.
Comment on the legend told by the Cardinal de Polignac that St. Denis, carrying his head in his hands, walked two leagues. Letter to Jean Le Rond d'Alembert (1763-07-07). Voltaire wrote to Madame du Deffand (January 1764) that one of her bon-mots was quoted in the notes of La Pucelle, canto 1: "Il n'y a que le premier pas qui coûte.".
“Freedom is nothing but the distance
between the hunter and the hunted”
"Accomplices", p. 89
The August Sleepwalker (1990)
“All the distances are associative.”
De Abaitua interview (1998)
Context: Mental space and its existence is what makes things like remote viewing possible. There shouldn’t be any limit to it. As I understand mental space, one of the differences between it and physical space, is that there is no space in it. All the distances are associative. In the real world, Land's End and John O’Groats are famously far apart. Yet you can’t say one without thinking of the other. In conceptual space they are right next to one another. Distances can only be associative, even vast interstellar distances shouldn’t be a problem. Time would also function like this.
“Who wouldn't be a mountaineer! Up here all the world's prizes seem nothing”
“For seventeen years, he did nothing at all but kill animals and stick in stamps.”
Of King George V; Diary, 17 Aug 1949