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Quotes About Discovery

Fly, bird, fly away; teach me to disappear! from The Keeper of the Sheep
~ Fernando Pessoa
Travel is for those who cannot feel.
~ Fernando Pessoa
A boat would seem to be an object whose one purpose is to travel, but its real purpose is not to travel but to reach harbour. We found ourselves on the high seas, with no idea of which port we should be aiming for.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Ideea de a c?l?tori m? îngreÅ£oÅŸeaz?. Am v?zut tot ceea ce niciodat? nu v?zusem. Am v?zut deja tot ceea ce înc? nu am v?zut.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Outros haverão de ter O que houvermos de perder. Outros poderão achar O que, no nosso encontrar, Foi achado, ou não achado, Segundo o destino dado.
~ Fernando Pessoa
O outro é sempre o obstáculo para quem procura. Só quem não procura é feliz; porque só quem não busca, encontra, visto que quem não procura já tem, e já ter, seja o que for, é ser feliz, como não pensar é a parte melhor de ser rico
~ Fernando Pessoa
Is it truth I want? I'll go back to my novel …
~ Fernando Pessoa
Repara bem que a obra que te propões fazer é a mais alta de todas. Sonhar é encontramo-nos. Vais ser o Colombo da tua alma. Vais buscar as suas paisagens. Cuida bem pois em que o teu rumo seja certo e não possam errar os teus instrumentos.
~ Fernando Pessoa
I am the escaped one. My soul seeks me/ through hills and valley/ I hope my soul/ never finds me.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Singurul avantaj când studiezi e s? te bucuri de ceea ce alÈ›ii nu au spus.
~ Fernando Pessoa
Sou navegador num desconhecimento de mim.
~ Fernando Pessoa
It does a man no harm,' the Sergeant remarked pleasantly, 'to move around a bit and see things. It is a great thing for widening out the mind. A wide mind is a grand thing, it nearly always leads to farseeing inventions.
~ Flann O'Brien
It does a man no harm to move around a bit and see things. It is a great thing for widening out the mind. A wide mind is a grand thing, it nearly always leads to farseeing inventions.
~ Flann O'Brien
I have found, in short, from reading my own writing, that my subject in fiction is the action of grace in territory largely held by the devil. I have also found that what I write is read by an audience which puts little stock either in grace or the devil. You discover your audience at the same time and in the same way that you discover your subject, but it is an added blow.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I have to write to discover what I am doing. Like the old lady, I don't know so well what I think until I see what I say; then I have to say it again.
~ Flannery O'Connor
The artist uses his reason to discover an answering reason in everything he sees.
~ Flannery O'Connor
To know oneself is, above all, to know what one lacks.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I write to discover what I know
~ Flannery O'Connor
I like to walk in the woods and see what Mother Nature is wearing.
~ Flannery O'Connor
Flannery revealed she had been working on the novel "a year and a half and will probably be two more years finishing it." She described her writing habits in a letter dated July 13: "I must tell you how I work. I don't have my novel outlined and I have to write to discover what I am doing.
~ Flannery O'Connor
You found out more when you left where you lived. He had found out already this morning that he had been made by a carpenter named Jesus Christ.
~ Flannery O'Connor
If they here, they somewhere.
~ Flannery O'Connor
I come a long way since I would believe anything. I come halfway around the world.
~ Flannery O'Connor
highway after the boy.
~ Flannery O'Connor