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Inspirational Quotes by Rebecca Solnit
- How will you go about finding that thing the nature of which is totally unknown to you?
- We fly; we dream in darkness; we devour heaven in bites too small to be measured.
- Never to get lost is not to live, not to know how to get lost brings you to destruction.
- We talk about politicians being in public life, but they seldom appear in the public space where everyone is free to appear as a citizen.
- Never turn down an adventure without a really good reason.
- There is no one as dangerous as he or she who has nothing to lose.
- To hope is to give yourself to the future - and that commitment to the future is what makes the present inhabitable.
- Books are solitudes in which we meet.
- Some things we have only as long as they remain lost, some things are not lost only so long as they are distant.
- A city always contains more than any inhabitant can know, and a great city always makes the unknown and the possible spurs to the imagination.
- Credibility is a basic survival tool.
- The Earth we evolved to inhabit is turning into something more turbulent and unreliable at a pace too fast for most living things to adapt…
- I walk wherever my errands take me.
- ...[Cabeza de Vaca] ceased to be lost not by returning but by turning into something else.
- Space--as landscape, terrain, spectacle, experience--has vanished.
- Every walker is a guard on patrol to protect the ineffable.
- Roads are a record of those who have gone before.
- Perfection is a stick with which to beat the possible.
- Leave the door open for the unknown, the door into the dark. That’s where the most important things come from, where you yourself came from,…
- A book is a heart that only beats in the chest of another.
- Writing is saying to no one and to everyone the things it is not possible to say to someone.
More Inspirational Quotes
- This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
- There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
- Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
- To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would be enough… — Hannah Arendt
- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
- I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth than adore… — Pietro Aretino
- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
- I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento