Corfu Quotes

“How do you irradiate the humbly trivial - the sneezes and waiting in bus-queues - with the lofty, and at the same time cherish above all in the lofty those things that nourish you here, today, in all your ordinariness? I cannot understand, in other words, what sort of God would bother to count every hair on my head.”
― Robert Dessaix, Corfu

“Life, so to speak, may not be beautiful, but its translation can be.”
― Robert Dessaix, Corfu

“a line of Emerson's came into my dry-as-dust, analytical mind, an expression I'd found puzzling when I'd first read it: 'beautiful enemies'. That is what Emerson said friends (in the most life-enhancing sense) should be to each other”
― Robert Dessaix, Corfu

“Who doesn’t long at times, in the midst of piles of washing or slumped in front of the television set, for something utterly unnatural to happen?”
― Robert Dessaix, Corfu