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“There came over me a terrifying sense of understanding about the meaning and the pathetic destiny of men. The desert was always there, a…

— John Fante

“Most often, we walk without understanding this movement, without hearing its step, but knowing that we must go beyond an emptiness in us, and…

— Anonymous

“I hold the power of life and death for every person I take with me. The desert is a capricious lady, and sometimes she…

— Paulo Coelho

“It was the first time the features and formative processes of the desert had made me pause and absorb just how small and brave…

— Aron Ralston

“All that was good in me thrilled in my heart at that moment, all that I hoped for in the profound, obscure meaning of…

— John Fante

“a woman of the desert knows that she must await her man.”

— Paulo Coelho

“It was as if there were no names here, as if there were no words. The desert cleansed everything in its wind, wiped everything…

— Jean-Marie Gustave Le Clézio

“I learned something else that day: we all have our own deserts. They may not be the same as my desert, but we all…

— Yeonmi Park

“The desert takes our dreams away from us, and they don't always return… Those who don't return become a part of the clouds, a…

— Paulo Coelho

“We are an oasis in the desert, beautiful but doomed!”

— Clifford lafrenier

“Mistress to these footprints, Lover to the wake of where He has just passed, for the path he wanders is between us all. The…

— Steven Erikson

“These poor, plain men, dwellers upon the lonely sands of Hatteras, took their lives in their hands, and, at the most imminent risk crossed…

— Annual Report of the U.S. Life- Saving Service 1885