Gerusalemme Est Quotes & Sayings

We can all be clockmakers, or astronomers. But if we all wanted to be Pushkin ... if the question is, how do you make a poem by Pushkin?- or, what exactly makes one poem or painting or piece of music greater than another?- or, what is beauty?, or liberty?, or virtue?- if the question is, how should we live? ... then, reason gives no answer or different answers. So something went wrong. The divine spark in man is not reason after all, but something else, some kind of intuition or vision, perhaps like the moment of inspiration experienced by the artist ... — Tom Stoppard

Maybe times are never strange to women: it is just one continuous monotonous thing full of the repeated follies of their menfolks. — William Faulkner

Why should we ever continue anything if the first parts are the best? — David Bowick

We need to keep switching up the language around climate change. — Cate Blanchett

There are so many ebbs and flows in life, but when you're raising small children, your family means everything. — Uma Thurman

Life is the greatest experiment. Each of us is an experiment of one-observer and subject-making choices, living with them, recording the effects. — George A. Sheehan

Oh, never trust a country That won't permit live poultry to ride on the bus. — Tom Robbins

My benefactor said that when a man embarks on the paths of sorcery he becomes aware, in a gradual manner, that ordinary life has been forever left behind; that knowledge is indeed a frightening affair; that the means of the ordinary world are no longer a buffer for him; and that he must adopt a new way of life if he is going to survive. The first thing he ought to do, at that point, is to want to become a warrior ... — Carlos Castaneda

It seems love is the root of all pain and most of its fruit only leaves a bitter taste behind. — L.F. Falconer

The true paradises are the paradises that we have lost. — Marcel Proust