"A subject to which few intellectuals ever give……" — Isabelle Eberhardt
"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 deliverance, and life on the open road is the essence of freedom. To have the courage to smash the chains with which modern life has weighted us (under the pretext that it was offering us more liberty), then to take up the symbolic stick and bundle and get out."
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Isabelle Eberhardt
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13 Quotes by Isabelle Eberhardt
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One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way...
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The way I see it, there is no greater spiritual beauty than fanaticism, of a sort so sincere it can…
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But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an…
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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…
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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…
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The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals,…
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For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone),…
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Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will…
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The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.
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