“Beyond a certain degree of hardship or misery, life often revives and heals the scars. As time passed, deportation [to the concentration camps for the young woman] had become a kind of voyage and even, thanks to the almost terrifying… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share
Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you -… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
“Time passed in brewing tea, the odd remark, cigarettes, then dawn came up. The widening light caught the plumage of quails and partridges...and quickly I dropped this wonderful moment to the bottom of my memory, like a sheet-anchor that one day I could draw up again.You stretch, pace to and fro feeling weightless, and the word 'happiness' seems too thin… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share
“Beyond a certain degree of hardship or misery, life often revives and heals the scars. As time passed, deportation [to the concentration camps for the young woman] had become a kind of voyage and even, thanks to the almost terrifying capacity of memory to transform horror into courage, a voyage that she could easily mention. Any way of seeing the… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share
“That day, I thought that I held something important and that my life would be changed. But nothing of this nature is acquired definitively.… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you,… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
“The splendid wooden mosque - which you can find if you search - nobody would think of showing you, being less aware of what… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
“At home what is ‘wonderful’ tends to be an exception that’s arranged; it is useful, or at least edifying. In Persia it might just… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
“The over-ripe, golden autumn which had taken hold of the town tugged at our heartstrings. The nomadic life makes you sensitive to the seasons:… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make… — Nicolas Bouvier Copy Share Image
