
“…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
Source: Camino Real
“…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.”
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“The voyage appeared short, for I had nothing to anticipate.”
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“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
No Exit (1944)
Variant: A man is what he wills himself to be.
Source: Existentialism and Human Emotions
“I will make them conform themselves, or else I will harry them out of the land, or else do worse.”
Speaking of the Puritans at Hampton Court Conference (16 January 1604)
“Legends are best left as legends and attempts to make them real are rarely successful”
Source: Elric of Melniboné
“Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.”
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra