I had become, with the approach of night, once more aware of loneliness and time - those two companions without whom no journey can yield us anything.

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It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Our inventions mirror our secret wishes.

Music is only love looking for words.

Music is only love looking for words.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

Like all young men I set out to be a genius, but mercifully laughter intervened.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

A city becomes a world when one loves one of it's inhabitants.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

I'm trying to die correctly, but it's very difficult, you know.

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel....

It takes a lot of energy and a lot of neurosis to write a novel....

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Truth disappears with the telling of it

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

Music was invented to confirm human loneliness.

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

For us artists there waits the joyous compromise through art with all that wounded or...

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

It's unthinkable not to love --you'd have a severe nervous breakdown. Or you'd have to...

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

I imagine, therefore I belong and am free.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy

Music is only love looking for words

Music is only love looking for words

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the...

We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them,...

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Everyone loathes his own country and countrymen if he is any sort of artist.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.