Collages Quote by Anaïs Nin

“He completely lacked any ardent interest that might have occupied his mind. His interior life was impoverished, had undergone a deterioration so severe that…

— Thomas Mann

“Often when he was not working he had come here and sat an entire afternoon, lulled by the din and music from the other…

— Paul Bowles

“Looking into his eyes, you seemed to see there the yet lingering images of those thousand-fold perils he had calmly confronted through life. A…

— Herman Melville

“He could be boastful in a way pleasantly at odds with his native fatalism, and his youthful stubbornness had a way of ameliorating into…

— Dan Lopez

“The torments of his mind and the severe penance he had observed, had produced a surprising change in his appearance, so that he resembled…

— Ann Radcliffe

“Now when he walked in his fields and pastures and woodlands he was tramping into his mind the shape of the land, his thought…

— Wendell Berry

“That was originally what I had loved him for: that at a period when our native land was nude and crude and provincial, when…

— Henry James

“This yearning for new and distant scenes, this craving for freedom, release, forgetfulness -- they were he admitted to himself, an impulse towards flight,…

— Thomas Mann

“He saw clearly now why he so loved this species of war. On the field of battle, his every act was open to the…

— R. Scott Bakker

“He had no more imaginary space, nowhere he could escape to, no more expectations, all he could do was make himself available to the…

— Laurence Cossé

“He seemed to be buffeted from both sides, challenged by his dreams, which revolted at the compromises of reality, and assaulted by reality which…

— Walter Lippmann

“It was clear he had remained unflustered by recent public events, at the age he had reached perhaps disillusioned with the commonplaces of life;…

— Anthony Powell