Land of Love and Ruins
Oddný Eir
Top 10 Best Quotes
“I find it quite incredible how much peace and quiet a person actually needs in order to devote himself entirely to his thoughts.”
“You mustn't bury yourself alive, forget to rise up, or bind yourself to the dust in melancholy surrender.”
“Next I want to try living apart together, live in the same country, the same city, even the same building as whomever I'm in a relationship with, yet in a different apartment than him. Then it would be possible to pay him visits and still invite good friends over to my place. Do you think you have that it takes to maintain such a French arrangement? he asked. Well, no, probably not...but then again...? Maybe it would be better in the long run to stay in a more lasting relationship and not need to move so often.”
“I'm sure I've been damaged by philosophy.”
“I think that home shouldn't be a place you need to leave if you want to experience something in consonance with your innermost being. Home should be a place of experimentation and discovery, a place of peace and quiet where the most natural in each individual can be developed in fine-tuning to the desires and searches of others.”
“Will we always find faults with our accommodations because of the turmoil in our own hearts?”
“She said it was no use waiting for trust to come to you fully formed, and then go and create a life and home together; you just had to start living with the person you loved best, and trust would build over time.”
“Might she have loved her brother so much that she was incapable of loving others?”
“It's so embarrassing to think that someone is actually interested in what you're thinking. And in that regard, it's almost unbelievable that autobiographies are published. Who cares about your story?”
“It's one thing to remember, another to get stuck. Why don't people buy notepads and write poems instead of sit around on historical poem-pillows watching TV? Why not renew Romanticism, re-clarify the relationship between creation and memory?”
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Book Keywords:
healing, poetry, love, living, autobiography, relationships, heart, contemplation, turmoil, romanticism, thoughts, home, quiet, peace, trust, philosophy, discovery, solitude, nature
