Nicolas Bouvier Quotes
Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.
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I love Mike Tyson. I was a fan, as everybody else was. The moment somebody stood up to him, he didn't do so well. And that's the same thing with Anthony Johnson. The guy's a bully. He wants to intimidate you; he wants to dominate you. He wants to knock you out. But what happens when you don't knock somebody out? What happens?
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I talk in subjects and verbs, and sort of wind around in concentric circles until I get far enough away from the beginning so that I can call it the end, and it ends.
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I can tell you for me it goes on forever. There are some things you can't ever find out. You can't find out in one life either.
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Why shouldn’t art be pretty? There are enough unpleasant things in the world.
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a poet is someone who is abnormally fond of that precision which creates movement. Which is to say the highest form of concentration possible: fascination; to report on the electrifying experience of being
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A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.
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If we judged by realities we should give honor not to the rich for the fine clothes they wear but to the poor who are the makers of such things.
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If you live long enough, you get accused of things you never did and praised for virtues you never had.
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The Almighty has His own purposes.
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The so-called paradoxes of an author, to which a reader takes exception, often exist not in the author's book at all, but rather in the reader's head.
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My wisdom has long accumulated like a cloud, it becomes stiller and darker. So does all wisdom which shall one day bear lightnings.
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Intellect takes us along in the battle of life to a certain limit, but at the crucial moment it fails us. Faith transcends reason. It is when the horizon is the darkest and human reason is beaten down to the ground that faith shines brightest and comes to our rescue.
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This is really exciting news to a community that was hard-hit in the early '90s with the loss of Fort Ord.
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Little Jane's love would have been my best reward, without it, my heart is broken.
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Someone curating songs for you through your computer or being able to hold 10,000 songs on your watch - that convenience is pretty incredible, but so is the emotional impact of holding a Beatles record in your hand and listening to Let It Be.
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Strike hard and fast and do not separate.
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Power without responsibility - the prerogative of the harlot throughout the ages.
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Being an artist and a human in this world always means confronting people who make you feel like you have to act according to their rules.
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I've always been drawn to the extremes of human behavior, and crime fiction is a great way to explore the lives and stories of fascinating people.
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In 1841 you and I had together a tedious low-water trip, on a Steam Boat from Louisville to St. Louis. You may remember, as I well do, that from Louisville to the mouth of the Ohio there were, on board, ten or a dozen slaves, shackled together with irons. That sight was a continual torment to me; and I see something like it every time I touch the Ohio, or any other slave-border.
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Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.
