Quotes About Discovery

The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.

The more I saw, however, the more I needed to see. I tried to settle down back home in Los Angeles, but I missed that feeling, that rush. I went to see a doctor about it. He told me I should slow down for a while, take a break. I just nodded and left, booked a flight out that day. It didn't seem possible to stop.

Photography and the cinema on the other hand are discoveries that satisfy, once and for all and in its very essence, our obsession with realism. No matter how skillful the painter, his work was always in fee to an inescapable subjectivity. The fact that a human hand intervened cast a shadow of doubt over the image.

Elle me dit son nom, celui qu'elle s'est choisi: « Nadja, parce qu'en russe c'est le commencement du mot espérance, et parce que ce n'en n'est que le commencement.

Partir pour le pôle intérieur de soi-même.

La plus grande faiblesse de la pensée contemporaine me paraît résider dans la surestimation extravagante du connu par rapport à ce qui reste à connaître.

On est venu, il y a quelques mois, m'apprendre que Nadja était folle.

One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

You can never cross the ocean until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore

Know that joy is rarer, more difficult, and more beautiful than sadness. Once you make this all-important discovery, you must embrace joy as a moral obligation.

On ne découvre pas de terre nouvelle sans consentir à perdre de vue, d'abord et longtemps, tout rivage. (One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.)

What one hides is worth neither more nor less than what one finds. And what one hides from oneself is worth neither more nor less than what one allows others to find.

One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.

It is only in adventure that some people succeed in knowing themselves — in finding themselves.

A?k m??" diyordum. "Neymi? bu a?k dedikleri?" "Bilmiyor musunuz ne oldu?unu? Ö?renirsiniz... Siz de bir gün dü?ersiniz a??na.

cómo es que te pienso, región, y no estoy, cómo fue que te dejaste descubrir así de una, me encerraste en el descubrimiento y me dejaste fuera de ti

Cómo no lo había conocido antes?, le pregunté, y él contestó con la humildad del que dice la verdad: porque eras una burguesita de lo más chinche

Painting was forced, as it turned out, to offer us illusion and this illusion was reckoned sufficient unto art. Photography and the cinema on the other hand are discoveries that satisfy, once and for all and in its very essence, our obsession with realism.

That's where you're going to know yourself. On the other side of tired.

You can't ask my father anything directly. So I file it away with all the other things I don't know about my parents - permanently missing pieces in the jigsaw puzzle that is me.

It was good to travel to the other side of the world.

I insist on knowing the names, on being interested only in books left ajar, like doors; I will not go looking for keys.

They rarely discovered a star red as a distant crime or a star-fish.

The event from which each of us is entitled to expect the revelation of his own life's meaning-that event which i may not yet have found but on whose path I seek myself- is not earned by work.