I like terra firma; the more firma, the less terra.
With this book in my hands, reading aloud to my friends, questioning them, explaining to them, I was made clearly to understand that I had no friends, that I was alone in the world. Because in not understanding the meaning of the words, neither I nor my friends, one thing became very clear and that was that there were ways of not understanding and that the difference between the non-understanding of one individual and the non-understanding of another created a world of terra firma even more solid than differences of understanding.
People like terra firma, and they should be allowed to walk where they wish.
A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king.
I stay on terra firma: the more firm, the less terror.
To desire the same things and to reject the same things, constitutes true friendship. [Lat. , Idem velle et idem nolle ea demum firma amicitia est. ]