I knew, as every peasant does, that land can never be truly owned. We are the keepers of the soil, the curators of trees.
My head was a desolate place and as barren as the bare hills of Le Marche. Until I began to build in it, only vultures nested there.
The palace started as a single vaulted room and grew in proportion to my despair. It began as an exercise to keep my mind from its melancholy, then it became a dream and a necessity. . . . I built a temple in my head. . . . Its hallways were as lofty...
Like poetry, in times of intense emotion the image returns to me. Like poetry, it stroked my soul and, by turns, lulled and stoked my senses.
The doorstep of the palace is very slippery.
Love can turn a cottage into a golden palace.
A hut is a palace to the poor man.
A small tumbledown house is better than a communal palace.
The palace leads to fame, the market to fortune, and loneliness to wisdom.
Ricci created memory palaces in his mind. Each item in the palace represented a series of concepts. The rooms and locations within the palace served as directories and files, similar to computer data storage. Ricci instantaneously learned, retained a...
I'd rather live in a cave with a view of a palace than live in a palace with a view of a cave.
The fire that burns a royal palace only enhances its splendor.
Women are like raindrops: some fall on palaces, others on ricefields.
If a tree is bent, every goat will jump on it.
Success consists in being successful, not in having potential for success. Any wide piece of ground is the potential site of a palace, but there's no palace till it's built.
Better the cottage where one is merry than the palace where one weeps.
I am buoyant and expansive and uncontainable--but I always was so, only I never knew it!
Where does destiny end and choice begin?
I will be glad to go. There is no poetry here. It is as I have always set forth: joy comes of its own free will; it cannot be belabored.
There had been an attempt to humiliate him. It had not succeeded. He had paid, but pain, like pleasure, has no duration. Pride was an entity more persistent.
8. The Cat Who Lived in the Palace The cat who lived in the Palace had been awarded the head-dress of nobility and was called Lady Myobu.
