"I am not afraid of death, but would……" — Isabelle Eberhardt
"I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way."
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Isabelle Eberhardt
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13 Quotes by Isabelle Eberhardt
Isabelle Eberhardt has 13 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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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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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