Quotes About Discovery

I thought only of the small island flung out somewhere in front of me, and the fair-haired boy I hoped I would find there.

Fue extraño, pero me descubrí intentando no ser una decepción para él

Il peggio della mia codardia era stato smaltito, lasciando il posto a una frastornante esaltazione. Non me ne starò come un uccello in gabbia, pensai, troppo stordito per volare via anche con la porta aperta. Entrai in quel bosco e la mia vita ebbe inizio.

Suspiró con fatiga. —Eres mejor hombre que yo. Eso era el comienzo de una esperanza. Nos habíamos infligido heridas el uno al otro, pero ninguna mortal. […] Habría un después tras todo esto. —No, eso no es cierto. —Me levanté y me dirigí hacia él. Puse una mano sobre su piel tibia—. Hoy te has perdido y luego te has encontrado.

When I was young, I overheard our palace surgeon talking. He said that the medicines he sold were only for show. Most hurts heal by themselves, he said, if you give them enough time. It was the sort of secret I loved to discover, for it made me feel cynical and wise. I took it for a philosophy.

When I was young, I overheard our palace surgeon talking. He said that the medicines he sold were only for show. Most hurts heal by themselves, if you give them enough time. It was the sort of secret I loved to discover, for it made me feel cynical and wise. I took it for philosophy. I have always been good at waiting, you see.

All this while I have been a weaver without wool, a ship without the sea. Yet now look where I sail.

I touched the thought like a cruise, testing for its ache.

I am my own experiment. I am my own work of art.

Beauty is where you find it.

One lonely star you don't know who you are.

The difference between science and the arts is not that they are different sides of the same coin even, or even different parts of the same continuum, but rather, they are manifestations of the same thing. The arts and sciences are avatars of human creativity.

There are no good girls gone wrong - just bad girls found out.

I'll try anything once, twice if I like it, three times to make sure.

Keep a diary and one day it'll keep you.

I've been things and seen places.

A hard man is good to find.

My scents for change are (and there's a lot of them, because there's a lot going on for me at the moment!): Pour Homme by Yamamoto On the Road by Timothy Han Santal Blanc by Serge Lutens Oud Wood by Tom Ford Dear Polly by Vilhelm La Flâneuse by Lucien Lechêne PM by the Great Eastern Fragrance Company Je t'aime Jane by Bella Freud No. 9 Benjoin by Prada Shalimar by Guerlain Original by Eight & Bob

It is very unhappy, but too late to be helped, the discovery we have made that we exist," wrote Ralph Waldo Emerson.

The Oblivion Seekers

She is not yet where she needs to be, in the forest, alone, with the trees over her head. She is not alone.

I still crave the mental and physical jolt of being somewhere new, of descending aeroplane steps into a different climate, different faces, different languages.

Az ötedeki patikada büyük bir kayan?n ard?ndan bir adam ç?k?veriyor.

Aged sixteen, is what she sees first. Then: Insists on keeping her hair long. Iris reads the whole document from beginning to end, then goes back and reads it again. It ends with: Parents report finding her dancing before a mirror, dressed in her mother's clothes.