The War in Venice
Glenn Haybittle
Top 10 Best Quotes
“You'd like to think the death of a person is like the death of a star, that it will enrich the cosmos with precious elements, with added meaning.”
“She quickly learned that the sight of Venice at given moments can root you in your deepest longings. It can also make you realise your identity too is built on shifting water, consists of rising and falling tides, countless ephemeral reflections and refractions. Venice can wash through you the love you have never made, the battles you have never fought, the beauty you have never created. It can flood to the surface everything you have lost and everything you have never known. It can reveal you to yourself without your carnival masks.”
“There are one or two places in the world that know our secrets.”
“Memory is both the best and cruellest friend we will ever have.”
“Life cannot be experienced deeply without kindness, just as life cannot be experienced deeply without art.”
“Sometimes I think to learn an adult perspective on life is simply to become good at telling lies, mostly of a flattering nature and mostly to oneself.”
“No one is honest with themselves when they want something.”
“It's like men and women sing different words to the same song.”
“Venice can wash through you the love you have never made, the battles you have never fought, the beauty you have never created. It can flood to the surface everything you have lost and everything you have never known. It can reveal you to yourself without your carnival masks.”
“To be aware of time is to be anxious.”
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Book Keywords:
secrets, dishonesty, men-and-women, time, venice, memory, kindness, adulthood, death
