Illarramendi Zerozero Quotes & Sayings

We have possessed virtually nothing in our life in Italy. In England, I became increasingly sure that to possess something was to arrest your knowledge of it, because the thing itself is no longer free. For me the pain of knowledge is a tonic, an antidote to the pall of possession. But there is an element of death in knowledge (...) Knowledge is what remains to the human mind once the possession has been lost. It is the reliquary of the vanished object. Its presence is painful, because it signifies that what was known is no longer there. — Rachel Cusk

Homecoming

My childhood's trees stand rejoicing around me: O human!
and the grass bids me welcome from foreign lands.
I lean my head in the grass: now home at last. — Edith Sodergran

Without a dream, life is meaningless. — Sunday Adelaja

I prefer brunettes. — Stephenie Meyer

Pain is a physical discipline. — Lailah Gifty Akita

Whether it was true or false seems ultimately of little importance.
Donald Sturrock in 'Storyteller. The Life of Roald Dahl — Donald Sturrock

One has to be insincere and promise something which you cannot fulfill. So you either have to be a fool who does not understand what you are promising, or deliberately be lying. — Vladimir Putin

My photographs are not pure: they are a seething wealth of imperfection. — Frederick Sommer

Certain black leaders would believe that you have to go through their prism: 'If I lay my hand on you, you're OK.' So many people have made a living off of the pimping of race. — Douglas Wilder

The head learns new things, but the heart forever practices old experiences. — Henry Ward Beecher

For did it not mean I was losing my darling, just when I had secretly made her mine? — Vladimir Nabokov

Better is the wrong with sincerity, rather than the right with falsehood. — Martin Farquhar Tupper

Alas, by the time Fate caught up with my life, Chance had it all planned. — Robert Breault

If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong. — Kinky Friedman