Isabelle Eberhardt Quotes

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• One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way...
• A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a…
• The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end in martyrdom.
• But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination…
• For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life
• I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
• Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial…
• A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
• We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest of us.
• The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied by…
• For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is…
• Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts…
• The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

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