Home is always the impossible subject, multilayered and maddening.
Paul TherouxTags: home
The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.
Paul TherouxDeath is an endless night so awful to contemplate that it can make us love life and value it with such passion that it may be the ultimate cause of all joy and all art.
Paul TherouxTags: life death passionate-living
Duffil had that uneasy look of a many who has left his parcels elsewhere,which is also the look of a man who thinks he's being followed.
Paul TherouxI have seldom heard a train go by and not wished I was on it.
Paul TherouxI want to know the age. The sex. Most of all, the fingerprints. I'd like to identify who it is.
After he had agreed, and I had left the office, walking to calm myself, I thought: And who am I? Please tell me who I am and what I'm doing.
Tags: self-discovery mystery
I had cooperated. I could not have refused. I was smitten with her, half in love but also afraid, because in my life (and she seemed to know this) I had not loved anyone without having been wounded. Love was power and possession, love caused pain: you were never more exposed than when you were in love, never more wounded; possession was an enslavement, something stifling.
Paul TherouxTags: love power possession enchantment
Eso es un viajero, alguien descontento con la idea de estar en casa, alguien descontento en general, alguien que vive esperando encontrar algo destacable, increíble.
Paul TherouxYou think of travellers as bold, but our guilty secret is that travel is one of the laziest ways on earth of passing the time.
Paul TherouxTags: travel lazyness traveller
Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.
Paul TherouxTags: life kindness trust travel strangers
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