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Desire Book Quotes Introspection Woman To Woman

Book:Eine Frau zu sehen

Source: Eine Frau zu sehen

“(...) ese nombre que es más que deseo, que se ha convertido ya en posesión a fuerza de haberlo repetido mil veces.”

Desire Woman To Woman

Book:Eine Frau zu sehen

Source: Eine Frau zu sehen

“Letters have time, time costs nothing in these parts-let's return to the melons and peaches of Afghanistan.”

Time Letters Desert Afghanistan Weary Travel Writing Indolence Travelling Women Writers Travellers

Book:All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Source: All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“You know very well that no one can enter the heart of another and become as one, not even for the shortest moment. Even your mother only made you flesh, and at your first breath you breathed in solitude”

Angel Mothers Angels Genesis Travel Writing Mother And Daughter Gods Power Travelling Persia Visitation

Book:Morte na Pérsia

Source: Morte na Pérsia

“Es wäre natürlich ganz und gar verfehlt, das aufzuschreiben, worüber Margot und ich halbe Tage und Nächte lang reden, so intensiv und ehrlich von beiden Seiten, dass man sich fast um Kopf und Kragen redet. (Brief an Klaus Mann, 23. Juli 1940)”

Love Friendship Letter

Author:Annemarie Schwarzenbach

“(...) ¿qué son las posibilidades? ¿No significan acaso promesa, siempre y cuando seamos valientes? ¿No significan acaso poder de la voluntad?: y saberlo es suficiente para ser capaz de esperar.”

Bravery Book Quotes Posibilities

Book:Eine Frau zu sehen

Source: Eine Frau zu sehen

“Sometimes I wonder why I write down all these memories. Would I want to give them to strangers to read?”

Memories Insight Writer Writers Travel Writing Women Writers Baring Your Soul

Book:Morte na Pérsia

Source: Morte na Pérsia

“Soon the whole fading plain is covered with them and on the other side of the street lie nothing but graves, and dark, veiled women who bustle amongst the dead in shapes of grief.”

Travel Travel Writing Traveling Travelling Alone Evocative Language

Book:Morte na Pérsia

Source: Morte na Pérsia

“In the first hour of the new day, in the cold, strong wind that already reaches our native shores, yes, in this one moment of eternally returning regret I realise: what staggers us, over and over again, is the morning splendour of departure!”

Afghanistan Travel Writing Arrivals Swiss Women Writers Departures Evocative Language Aden Suez Canal

Book:All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Source: All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“This sufficed: the overwhelming monument to the man who had not feared the poverty and grandeur of the steppe, so alien to all human measure. I breathed deep and tried, despite all, to salute life...”

Landscape Afghanistan Swiss Women Writers Nomads Steppe Hauntingly Beautiful

Book:All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Source: All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“What were the present and future to him, he who did not fear the sandstorm? Did he know what fortune and misfortune mean, and what our tortured hearts called hope?”

Afghanistan Travel Writing Swiss Women Writers Present Moment Living Deserts Sandstorm Hauntingly Beautiful

Book:All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Source: All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“What was I waiting for? For signs and miracles, stars on the firmament..?”

Travel Writing Swiss Travelling Signs From The Universe Signs Of Life Signs And Symbols Signs And Wonders Afghanistan Human Rights

Book:All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Source: All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“Of all the names that linger in my memory after a long journey, this one is the dearest to me (Therapia). Perhaps because it sounds so Greek, blithe as a swelling paean to carefree days spent on lovely shores? Perhaps because it came at the beginning and now belongs to a long ago, glorified time-for the journey had just begun.”

Exotic Traveller Travel Writing Past And Present Swiss Women Writers Amazing Writing Travelling To A Foreign Country

Book:All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Source: All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“I am left with the magic, the name, the heart miraculously touched.”

Moving Magic Afghanistan Travel Writing Heartfelt Swiss Women Writers

Book:All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Source: All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“I saw it dissolve into a strangely clear horizon-there, a striated pyramid, stood the extinct volcano, a pain filled, deeply moving sight: permanence.”

Afghanistan Mountains Travel Writing Swiss Travelling Hindu Women Writers Horizons

Book:All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Source: All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

“In the grand and changeful panorama of the Hindu Kush, I miss the young green, the gentle wind, the stirring song of spring. But we do not dictate our dreams, and I didn't dare look back at the receding snowy peaks as I turned onto the plains.”

Dreams Wind Mountains Traveller Travel Writing Women Writers Snowy Plains

Author:Annemarie Schwarzenbach

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