The sea with an end can be Greek or Roman: the endless sea is Portuguese.

Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveler. What we see isn't what we see but what we are.

Every spoken word double-crosses us. The written word is the only tolerable form of communication, as it isn't a stone in a bridge between souls but a ray of light between stars.

Walking on these streets, until the night falls, my life feels to me like the life they have. By day they’re full of meaningless activity; by night, they’re full of meaningless lack of it. By day I am nothing, and by night I am I. There is no difference between me and these streets, save they being streets and I a soul, which perhaps is irrelevant when we consider the essence of things

Every gesture is a revolutionary act.

...the painful intensity of my sensations, even when they're happy ones; the blissful intensity of my sensations, even when they're sad.

It is noble to be shy, illustrious not to know how to act, great not to have a gift for living.