Quotes About Exploration

And that's how we live: wandering endlessly, concentrically outward, seeking in others a kindling spark of the love which has long lain, dormant, dark, unstoked in our own deepest souls.

I was lost in a vast, storm-tossed sea of shifting rhythmic complexities.

Algú va dir que la veritat surt quan es busca.

Para eso se es joven, para probar cosas, para experimentar. Para eso y para desafiarlo todo.

Iban a cultivar un huerto estéril, un huerto muerto, pero ¿cómo podían saberlo su nunca habían salido de Tenochtitlan?

É como se corresse sobre o mar para as estrelas, na mais maravilhosa viagem do mundo. Uma viagem como o Professor nunca leu nem inventou. Seu coração bate tanto, tanto, que ele o aperta com a mão.

Pedro Bala também só tinha quinze anos, mas há muito tempo conhecia não só o areal e os seus segredos, como os segredos do amor das mulheres. Porque se os homens conhecem esses segredos muito antes que as mulheres, os Capitães da Areia os conheciam muito antes que qualquer homem.

In order to fly you have to create space in the open air so that your wings can really spread out. It's like a parachute. They only work from a high altitude. To fly you have to begin taking risks. If you don't want to, maybe the best thing is just to give up, and keep walking forever.

Yes, those ten-billion-dollar twenty-seven-kilometer-long machines are good for more than just finding bosons named after Peter Higgs.

I have always imagined Paradise as a kind of library.

I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.

Siempre imaginé que el Paraíso sería algún tipo de biblioteca.

A man sets out to draw the world. As the years go by, he peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, instruments, stars, horses, and individuals. A short time before he dies, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the lineaments of his own face.

Touch pain with great curiosity.

I seek new perfumes, ampler blossoms, untried pleasures.

Baudelaire had gone further; he had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish.

Viví en el monstruo y le conozco las entrañas

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

Yo vengo de todas partes, Y hacia todas partes voy

Why write, if this too easy activity of pushing a pen across paper is not given a certain bull-fighting risk and we do not approach dangerous, agile, and two-horned topics?

La cultura es el fruto de la curiosidad, de esa inquietud misteriosa que invita a mirar el fondo de todos los abismos.

A knowledge of different literatures is the best way to free one's self from the tyranny of any of them.

They come here seeking gold. May you go to their country seeking a different kind of gold for our needs! But remember, all that glisters is not gold.

Vivi dentro del monstro y conozco sus entranas