“We were alone in the most beautiful place in the world.”

“If we give what we treasure most to a Being we love with all our hearts, if we can do that without expecting anything in return, then the world becomes a beautiful place.”

Orhan Pamuk book The Museum of Innocence

“[T]he older I get the more I realise that the world is not as varied as we thought it was when we were young. Most places are much alike.”

John Banville (1945) Irish writer

“Were they beautiful? We were all beautiful. We were in our twenties.”

Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer

“This place was truly the highest and the lowest of all worlds — the most beautiful senses, the most exquisite emotions… the most malevolent desires, the darkest deeds. Perhaps it was meant to be so. Perhaps without the lows, the highs could not be reached.”

Stephenie Meyer book The Host

“Her beauty belonged to all the world but her flaws belonged to him alone.”

Henry De Montherlant (1895–1972) French writer

“Solitude never hurt anyone. Emily Dickinson lived alone, and she wrote some of the most beautiful poetry the world has ever known… then went crazy as a loon."

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Matt Groening (1954) American cartoonist

“We were always getting away with something, which implied that someone was always watching us, which mean were are not alone in this world.”

Miranda July (1974) American performance artist, musician and writer

“In my crazy world, above all others… you were the only one who was the ugliest. And you were the only one… who was the most beautiful…. This is the unspoken truth.”

Kaori Yuki Japanese manga artist

“The world, this palpable world, which we were wont to treat with the boredom and disrespect with which we habitually regard places with no sacred association for us, is in truth a holy place, and we did not know it. Venite, adoremus.”

Pierre Teilhard De Chardin (1881–1955) French philosopher and Jesuit priest