“…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.”
Jeanette Winterson book Sexing the Cherry
Source: Sexing the Cherry
Source: Camino Real
“…I noticed a woman whose face was a sea voyage I had not the courage to attempt.”
Jeanette Winterson book Sexing the Cherry
Source: Sexing the Cherry
“The voyage appeared short, for I had nothing to anticipate.”
Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist
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“Man is nothing else but what he makes of himself.”
Jean Paul Sartre (1905–1980) French existentialist philosopher, playwright, novelist, screenwriter, political activist, biographer, and …
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.”
James I of England (1566–1625) king during union of English and Scottish crowns
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”
Michael Moorcock book Elric of Melniboné
Source: Elric of Melniboné
“Like them you are tall and taciturn, and you are sad, all at once, like a voyage.”
Pablo Neruda book Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Source: Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
“Allowing someone else to make us happy will make them happy too.”
Paulo Coelho book Manuscript Found in Accra
Source: Manuscript Found in Accra