Quotes from Lesley Blanch

In the Balkans the peasants say that if you long for faraway countries and leave your own land and home to find them, you are born under A LILAC-BLEEDING STAR.

Paris was the cross-roads of the world.

She was an Amazon. Her whole life was spent riding at breakneck speed towards the wilder shores of love.

Always explore a new town on an empty stomach. It sharpens the vision. Leave the main thoroughfare immediately. Spend your time dawdling or just sitting.

Who is the lonely Traveller Racing the moonlight to my door? Racing his troika over the steppe Pacing his steeds with the wind in the forest. The North wind that harries The South wind that tarries Who the lone Traveller come to my door? — Lonely no more." Siberian song - Trans-Baikal region

For unfortunately, simplicity is a state which is mostly achieved only through great difficulty, or the complicity of others.

if we seek, and are aware we have missed the moment we seek, our own absolute moment in time, then we live out our lives unfulfilled. In the words of an eastern proverb: we die with our eyes open – we cannot rest; even in death we are still looking for it.

There are two sorts of romantics: those who love, and those who love the adventure of loving