Xavier M

“The most dangerous worldviews are the worldviews of those who have never viewed the world.”
― Alexander von Humboldt

“In Russia, the land of spectral ideas and disembodied aspirations, many brave minds have turned away at last from the vain and endless conflict to the one great historical fact of the land. They turned to autocracy for the peace of their patriotic conscience as a weary unbeliever, touched by grace, turns to the faith of his fathers for the blessing of spiritual rest. Like other Russians before him, Razumov, in conflict with himself, felt the touch of grace upon his forehead.”
― Joseph Conrad, Under Western Eyes

“All landscapes eventually turn to land, the gold of the imagination to the lead of reality”
― V.S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men

“You should dream more, Mr Wormold. Reality in our century is not something to be faced.’ 2”
― Graham Greene, Our Man in Havana