Quote by Brian Keenan

“As sensory experience junkies, we have been blinded to the majesty in the common.”

— Bryant McGill

“My taste runs to hourglasses, maps, seventeenth-century typefaces, etymologies, the taste of coffee, and the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.”

— Jorge Luis Borges

“After graduation, due to special circumstances and perhaps also to my character, I began to travel throughout America, and I became acquainted with all…

— Ernesto "Che" Guevara

“He has the special quality of virginity, most and least ambiguous of states: ignorance, yet at the same time, power in potentia, and, furthermore,…

— Angela Carter

“No one [Islanders] trod easily upon the emotions of another where the sea licked everywhere against an endless shoreline. And this was excellent and…

— David Guterson

“We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go…

— Aldous Huxley

“Do not confuse the crippling hauntedness of judgment with the transformational power of awareness.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“I am thinking of a summer on the Baltic when I was a child: how talkative I was to sea and forest; how, filled…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

“In this little room full of people he was suffering the pangs of men whose egos lose their virginity—as happens when they overhear for…

— Tom Wolfe

“When we have learnt to call storms, storms, and death, death, and birth, birth, when we have mastered the sailor's horn-book and Mr Piddington's…

— Henry de Vere Stacpoole

“Our disappeared were everywhere, irresistible, in waking, in sleeping, a reason for violence, a reason for forgiveness, destroying the peace we tried to possess,…

— Kim Echlin

“They were both overwhelmed by the sudden flatness that comes over American travellers in quiet foreign places. No stimuli worked upon them, no voices…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald