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Isabelle Eberhardt has 14 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way...
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A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet…
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The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can only end…
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But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one,…
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For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life
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I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.
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Oh if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that…
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A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
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We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest…
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The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of…
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For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act…
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Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be…
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There are no greater wretches in the world than many of those whom people in general take to be happy.
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There are some solitary wretches who seem to have left the rest of mankind, only, as Eve left Adam, to meet the…
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Those wretches tainted with the error of Indifferentism and Modernism hold that dogmatic truth is not absolute, but relative: that is, that…
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Jews and papists are ungodly wretches; they are two stockings made of one piece of cloth.
— Martin Luther
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Homosexuals are weak, morally sick wretches.
— Jesse Helms
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Inarticulate wretches have been behind most of the major advances in civilization. If Vincent Van Gogh had been able to get on…
— Unknown Author
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Thinking it selfish to dwell on her own sufferings, when in the midst of wretches, who had not only lost all that…
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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Take physic, pomp; Expose thyself to feel what wretches feel, That thou mayst shake the superflux to them And show the heavens…
— William Shakespeare
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Wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
— Alexander Pope
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The hungry judges soon the sentence sign, and wretches hang that jurymen may dine.
— Alexander Pope
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We are, all of us, poor wretches, and those who prefer not to understand this are even worse off than the rest…
— Isabelle Eberhardt
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Yes, I laugh at all mankind, and the imposition that they dare to practice when they talk of hearts. I laugh at…
— Charles Robert Maturin
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