Borders Quotes

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For a long time I believed the opposite of passion was death. I was wrong. Passion and death are implicit, one in the other. Past… — Marya Hornbacher
These short stories are vast structures existing mostly in the subconscious of our cultural history. They will live with the reader long after the words… — Walter Mosley
And wasn't my mind also like another crib in the depths of which I felt I remained ensconced, even in order to watch what was… — Marcel Proust
Here is the time for the sayable, here is its home. Speak and attest. More than ever the things we can live with are falling… — Rainer Maria Rilke
It takes so little, so infinitely little, for a person to cross the border beyond which everything loses meaning: love, convictions, faith, history. Human life… — Milan Kundera
Tenderness and Rot Tenderness and rot share a border. And rot is an aggressive neighbor whose iridescence keeps creeping over. No lessons can be drawn… — Kay Ryan
...there was another, gorier parturition, when two nations incarnated out of one. A foreigner drew a magic line on a map and called it the… — Rohinton Mistry
Every good quality runs into a defect; economy borders on avarice, the generous are not far from the prodigal, the brave man is close to… — Victor Hugo
The characters in my novels are my own unrealised possibilities. That is why I am equally fond of them all and equally horrified by them.… — Milan Kundera
I am SHADOW, and my dwelling is near to the Catacombs of Ptolemais, and hard by those dim plains of Helusion which border upon the… — Edgar Allan Poe
Eiffel saw his Tower in the form of a serious object, rational, useful; men return it to him in the form of a great baroque… — Roland Barthes
Youâ€™re not dead, but youâ€™re not alive, either. Youâ€™re a wintergirl, Lia-Lia, caught in between the worlds. Youâ€™re a ghost with a beat- ing heart.… — Laurie Halse Anderson
In ancient days, Deltora was divided into seven tribes. The tribesfought on their borders but otherwise stayed in their own place. Each had a gem… — Emily Rodda
Anyway, now she thinks of Estha and Rahel as Them, because, separately, the two of them are no longer what They were or ever thought… — Arundhati Roy
I won the wintergirl trip over the border into dangerland. — Laurie Halse Anderson
To be fully seen by somebody, then, and be loved anyhow - this is a human offering that can border on miraculous. — Elizabeth Gilbert
Sadly, at a time when so much sophisticated cultural criticism by hip intellectuals from diverse locations extols a vision of cultural hybridity, border crossing, subjectivity… — Bell Hooks
We could have made it to the Arizona border in a few more hours if we hadn't been distracting each other with stupid little arguments.… — Adam Rex
How much more infinite a sea is man? Be not so childish as to measure him from head to foot and think you have found… — Mikhail Naimy
Like world describers before me, those mapmakers in the seventeenth centure, I had laid down my first faintly drawn border. With that one tentative mark,… — Justina Chen

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