Doe Quote by Alessandro Baricco Download Open image “This is the seashore. Neither land nor sea. It’s a place that does not exist.” — Alessandro Baricco ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Doe Land Sea
Strictly speaking, the land does not exist; it is merely dehydrated sea. — Alan Coren Copy Share Image
Land is the secure ground of home, the sea is like life, the outside, the unknown. — Stephen Gardiner Copy Share Image
I've never seen the point of the sea, except where it meets the land. The shore has a point. The sea has none. — Alan Bennett Copy Share Image
Those who live by the sea can hardly form a single thought of which the sea would not be part. — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
The shore is an ancient world, for as long as there has been an earth and sea there has been this place of the… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The sea is only the embodiment of a supernatural and wonderful existence. — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
We are full of words whose true meaning we haven't been taught, and one of those words is suffering. Another is the word death.… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Bio je, zapravo, jedan od onih ljudi što vole prisustvovati vlastitom životu, držeći nedoličnom svaku težnju da ga prožive. Uočljivo je kako takvi ljudi… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Maybe it’s that life, at times, gets to you in a way that there’s really nothing more to say.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Uvijek me fascinirao taj fenomen sa slikama. Stoje na zidu godinama, a onda, bez ikakvog povoda, ama baš ikakvog padnu, tras, padnu dole. Vise okačene o ekser, niko ih i ne pipne, ali one u jednom trenutku, tras, padnu dole, kao kamen. U savršenoj tišini, dok je sve oko njih nepomično, ni muha da proleti, a one, tras. Ne postoji… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share
“Išla je i znala kuda treba da ide. To je bilo sve. Veličanstveno osećanje. Kad se sudbina napokon raskrili i postane razgovetna staza i… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“Doch es gibt Schiffe, die an absurderen Orten gestrandet sind. Ein Leben kann leicht in irgendeinem Gesicht stranden.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“He puts down the pen, folds the sheet of paper, and slips it inside an envelope. He stands up, takes from his trunk a mahogany box, lifts the lid, lets the letter fall inside, open and unaddressed. In the box are hundreds of identical envelopes, open and unaddressed. He thinks that somewhere in the world he will meet a woman… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share
... he was one of those men who like to be observers at their own lives ... such people observe their destiny much as… — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
It’s a strange grief…to die of nostalgia for something you never lived. — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
“And carefully he brought Time to a halt, for as long as he wished.” — Alessandro Baricco Copy Share Image
So the fool, as distinct from the scoundrel, is completely self- satisfied; in fact, he can easily become dangerous, as it does not take… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer Copy Share Image
I cannot forbid a person to marry several wives, for it does not contradict Scripture. MARTIN LUTHER, letter to Chancellor Gregory Brück, January 13,… — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
For successful education there must always be a certain freshness in the knowledge dealt with. It must be either new in itself or invested with some novelty of application to the new world of new times. Knowledge does not keep any better than fish. You may be dealing with knowledge of the old species, with some old truth; but somehow… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share
The prophet who fails to present a bearable alternative and yet preaches doom is part of the trap that he postulates. Not only does he picture us caught in a tremendous man-made or God-made trap from which there is no escape, but we must also listen to him day in, day out, describe how the trap is inexorably closing. To… — Margaret Mead Copy Share
Sometimes a sign or a quote is simply interesting by itself and does not require anything beyond being framed on a page. — Stephen Vincent Benet Copy Share Image
A home is not a museum. It doesn't have to be furnished with Picasso paintings, or Sheraton suites, or Oriental rugs, or Chinese pottery.… — James M. Cain Copy Share Image
The image of blacks usually is one of people who are suffering from hunger, unemployment, and poverty. The idea of them as agents and activists - as starting revolutions - does not exist in most people's minds. And I think it's very, very important that folks understand how much this country was founded on the enslavement of blacks, and how… — Grace Lee Boggs Copy Share
He's a fool that marries; but he's a greater fool that does not marry a fool. — William Wycherley Copy Share Image
Nothing old is ever reborn but neither does it totally disappear. And that which has once been born, will always reappear in a new… — Alvar Aalto Copy Share Image
One of the things the United States does well is building coalitions. What the U.S. knows is that if you don't have a coalition… — Shimon Peres Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
There is something about the South that accepts the supernatural. If you don't accept it and you're having a conversation with someone who does,… — Alice Englert Copy Share Image
