John Lighton Synge Quote

There is a fascination about the impossible... which is responsible for the dreams and fantasies with which we are all familiar. Everything which is possible becomes banal. Only the inaccessible is worthy of our passions.


Kandelman's Krim, Chapter Eight (p. 115), Jonathan Cape. 1957


There is a fascination about the impossible... which is responsible for the dreams and fantasies with which we are all familiar. Everything which is...

There is a fascination about the impossible... which is responsible for the dreams and fantasies with which we are all familiar. Everything which is...

There is a fascination about the impossible... which is responsible for the dreams and fantasies with which we are all familiar. Everything which is...

There is a fascination about the impossible... which is responsible for the dreams and fantasies with which we are all familiar. Everything which is...