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“Ver a una mujer, y sentir en ese mismo instante que también ella me ha visto, que sus ojos interrogantes han quedado prendados de mí cómo si no tuviéramos más remedio que encontrarnos en el umbral de lo ignoto, de esa frontera oscura y melancólica de la conciencia...” DesireBook QuotesIntrospectionWoman 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.” DesireWoman 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.” TimeLettersDesertAfghanistanWearyTravel WritingIndolenceTravellingWomen WritersTravellers 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” AngelMothersAngelsGenesisTravel WritingMother And DaughterGods PowerTravellingPersiaVisitation 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)” LoveFriendshipLetter 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.” BraveryBook QuotesPosibilities 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?” MemoriesInsightWriterWritersTravel WritingWomen WritersBaring 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.” TravelTravel WritingTravelingTravelling AloneEvocative 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!” AfghanistanTravel WritingArrivalsSwissWomen WritersDeparturesEvocative LanguageAdenSuez 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...” LandscapeAfghanistanSwissWomen WritersNomadsSteppeHauntingly 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?” AfghanistanTravel WritingSwissWomen WritersPresent Moment LivingDesertsSandstormHauntingly 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 WritingSwissTravellingSigns From The UniverseSigns Of LifeSigns And SymbolsSigns And WondersAfghanistan 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.” ExoticTravellerTravel WritingPast And PresentSwissWomen WritersAmazing WritingTravelling 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.” MovingMagicAfghanistanTravel WritingHeartfeltSwissWomen 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.” AfghanistanMountainsTravel WritingSwissTravellingHinduWomen WritersHorizons 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.” DreamsWindMountainsTravellerTravel WritingWomen WritersSnowyPlains Author:Annemarie Schwarzenbach