Mortel Quotes & Sayings

When you realize that emotions aren't truth and they are simply reactions to life circumstances, they can no longer hold you captive. — Diamante Lavendar

Yes, take it all around, there is quite a good deal of information in the book. I regret this very much; but really it could not be helped.
-from the Prefatory — Mark Twain

I want to reaffirm, as king, my faith in the unity of Spain. — Felipe VI

Night climbs its long underground staircase.
It recalls what it has to tell us. — Karen Solie

Language was not given to man: he seized it. — Louis Aragon

Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.. — Tom Hodgkinson

Recently someone asked, for whom does one write? That is a profound question. One should always dedicate a book. Not that one alters one's thoughts with a change of interlocutor, but because every word, whether we know it or not, is always a word with someone, which presupposes a certain degree of esteem or friendship, the resolution of a certain number of misunderstandings, the transcendence of a certain latent content and, finally the appearance of a part of the truth in the encounters we live. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

There is something to me very softening in the presence of a woman, some strange influence, even if one is not in love with them, which I cannot at all account for, having no very high opinion of the sex. But yet, I always feel in better humor with myself and every thing else, if there is a woman within ken. — Lord Byron