Teresa of Avila
Saint, Mystic, Writer
"Life is a night spent in an uncomfortable inn."
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Inns
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William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Shall I not take mine ease in mine inn but I shall have my pocket picked?"
Fernando Pessoa
Poet, Writer
"I think of life as an inn where I have to stay until the abyss coach arrives. I don't know where it will take me, for I know nothing."
George Eliot
Novelist, Poet, Journalist
"Where you have friends you should not go to inns."
Miguel de Cervantes
Writer
"The road to the inn is much better than the stay."
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"I depart from life as from an inn, and not as from my home. [Lat., Ex vita discedo, tanquam ex hospitio, non tanquam ex domo.]"
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"I bet this is a brothel," she whispered to Gendry. "You don't even know what a brothel is." "I do so," she insisted. "It's like an inn, with girls."
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"The journey is better than the inn"."
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