Quotes About Discovery

Fortunately, I read (the books) without knowing what I was in for, and the best thing that can ever happen to a reader happened to me: I loved something that, by conviction (or by my nature) I should not have loved

As I have pointed out before, characters are not born like people, of woman; they are born of a situation, a sentence, a metaphor containing in a nutshell a basic human possibility that the author thinks no one else has discovered or said something essential about. But isn't it true that an author can write only about himself?

Adventure, the first great theme of the novel.

If you don't care about the destination, you don't ask where you're going.

Whoever wishes to remember must not stay in one place, waiting for the memories to come of their own accord! Memories are scattered all over the immense world, and it takes voyaging to find them and make them leave their refuge.

She now knew there were conditions under which she could feel strong and fulfilled, and she longed to go off into the world and seek those conditions somewhere else.

Waking up was sheer delight for him: he always showed a naive and simple amazement at the discovery that he was back on earth; he was sincerely pleased. She, on the other hand, awoke with great reluctance, with a desire to stave off the day by keeping her eyes closed.

She desired her own body, newly discovered, intimate and alien beyond all others, incomparably exciting.

You'll learn either that people aren't human or that you don't know what humans are like

The thing that gives our every move its meaning is always totally unknown to us.

But once he got over the astounding strangeness of his new life (it took him about a week), he suddenly realized he was simply on a long holiday.

Jetzt hatte sie begriffen! Wer sich erinnern will, darf nicht an einem Ort verweilen und warten, bis die Erinnerungen von selbst kommen! Die Erinnerungen haben sich in alle Himmelsrichtungen verstreut, und man muss reisen, wenn man sie wiederfinden und aus ihren Schlupfwinkeln holen will!

The larger the searchlight, the larger the searchlight of the unknown.

I ponovno ga vidim onako kako sam ga vidio na samom po?etku romana. Stoji kraj prozora i gleda preko dvorišta u zid stambene zgrade. To je slika iz koje se rodio. Kao što sam rekao, likovi se ne ra?aju kao živi ljudi iz maj?inog tijela, ve? iz situacije, re?enice, metafora u kojoj je kao u orahovoj ljusci skrivena neka osnovna ljudska mogu?nost, mogu?nost o kojoj autor misli da je još nitko nije otkrio ili da o njoj još nitko ništa bitno nije rekao.

A long time ago, man would listen in amazement to the sound of regular beats in his chest, never suspecting what they were.

Nimic nu-mi repugn? mai mult ca sentimentul fraternit??ii dintre oameni, stârnit de descoperirea unei josnicii comune. Nu tânjesc spre o asemnea fraternitate vâscoas?.

Going over them, he felt the joy of having acquired yet another piece of the world, of having taken his imaginary scalpel and snipped yet another strip off the infinite canvas of the universe.

L'unicité du « moi » se cache justement dans ce que l'être humain a d'inimaginable. On ne peut imaginer que ce qui est identique chez tous les êtres, ce qui leur est commun. Le « moi » individuel, c'est ce qui se distingue du général, donc ce qui ne se laisse ni deviner ni calculer d'avance, c'est qu'il faut d'abord dévoiler, découvrir, conquérir chez l'autre.

Ata ishin veriu dhe jugu i planetit të saj dhe ajo nuk njihte planet tjetër.

El amor es el deseo de encontrar la mitad perdida de nosotros mismos.

El carácter único del YO se esconde precisamente en lo que hay de inimaginable en el hombre. Sólo somos capaces de imaginarnos lo que es igual en todas las personas, lo general. El YO individual es aquello que se diferencia de lo general, o sea lo que no puede ser adivinado y calculado de antemano, lo que en el otro es necesario descubrir, develar, conquistar.

Desde entonces sabía que la belleza es un mundo traicionado. Sólo podemos encontrarla cuando sus perseguidores la han dejado olvidada por error en algún sitio.

Como já disse os personagens não nascem de um corpo materno, como os seres vivos, mas de uma situação, uma frase, uma metáfora que contém em embrião uma possibilidade humana fundamental que o autor imagina não ter sido ainda descoberta, ou sobre a qual nada ainda foi dito de essencial.

Man, sometimes it takes you a long time to sound like yourself.