Now I am not ashamed of my defeat.
One murky island with its barking seals
Or a parched desert is enough
To make us say: yes, oui, si.
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"A Magic Mountain" (1975), trans. Czesław Miłosz and Lillian ValleeCzeslaw Milosz
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The desert is not an island: the island is not enchanted: and the desert is no habitation for men.
Peter Levi
I have since often observed, how incongruous and irrational the common temper of mankind is, especially of youth, to that reason which ought to guide them in such cases - viz. they are not ashamed to sin, and yet are ashamed to repent. Not ashamed of the action for which they ought justly to be esteemed fools, but are ashamed of the returning, which can only make them be esteemed wise men.
Daniel Defoe
You neglect and belittle the desert.
The desert is not remote in southern tropics
The desert is not only around the corner,
The desert is squeezed in the tube-train next to you,
The desert is in the heart of your brother.Thomas Stearns (T. S.) Eliot
Zuleika, on a desert island, would have spent most of her time in looking for a man's footprint.
Max Beerbohm
One barking Dog, sets all the Street a barking.
Thomas (writer) Fuller
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