Dronten Quotes & Sayings

Built up by the contiguity of the memories that followed one another, the black tunnel, in which my thoughts had been straying so long that they had even ceased to be aware of it, was suddenly broken by an interval of sunlight, allowing me to see in the distance a blue and smiling universe in which Albertine was no more than a memory, unimportant and full of charm. Is it this, I asked myself, that is the true Albertine, or is it indeed the person who, in the darkness through which I have so long been rolling, seemed to me the sole reality? — Marcel Proust

Damn. It's still the Midwest around here, no matter how many open-minded people you surround yourself with. — Angela Johnson

You can be oblivious to the sound for a long while, then in a second of ticking it can create in the mind unbroken the long diminishing parade of time you didn't hear. — William Faulkner

People who see beauty all around them live in a beautiful world. People who see danger all around them live in a dangerous world. — Debasish Mridha

How have I used rivers, how have I used wars
to escape writing of the worst thing of all
not the crimes of other, not even our own death,
but the failure to want our freedom passionately enough
so that blighted elms, sick rivers, massacres would seem
mere emblems of that desecration of ourselves? — Adrienne Rich

Stop protesting the hand you've been dealt! Become partners with your life instead of making it an exhausting wrestling match. — Judith Orloff