Heidedal Porterville Quotes & Sayings

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company. — Andre Gide

But I believe above all that I wanted to build the palace of my memory, because my memory is my only homeland. — Anselm Kiefer

The ardent youth of to-day would start back in horror if you could show him his portrait in old age. As you pass from the soft years of youth into harsh, hardening manhood, be sure you take with you on the way all the humane emotions, do not leave them on the road: you will not pick them up again afterwards! Old age is before you, threatening and terrible, and it will give you nothing back again! The grave is more merciful; on the tomb is written: "Here lies a man," but you can read nothing on the frigid, callous features of old age. — Nikolai Gogol

Memory, so complete and clear or so evasive, has to be ended, has to be put aside, as if one were leaving a chapel and bringing the prayer to an end in one's head. — Harold Brodkey

What is death? A scary mask. Take it off-see, it doesn't bite. — Epictetus

GLOUCESTER: I do not know that Englishman alive With whom my soul is any jot at odds, More than the infant that is born to-night: I thank my God for my humility. — William Shakespeare

War will bring the revolution; revolution will stop the war, — Jhumpa Lahiri