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 servitude and yet always willing to accept the slipping on of the harness. There are limits to every domain, and laws to govern every organized power. But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the non-existent horizon, and her empire is an intangible one, for her domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.
To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature. - Isabelle Eberhardt
To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.
- Isabelle Eberhardt
Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization ha… - Isabelle Eberhardt
Civilization, that great fraud of our times, has promised man that by complicating his existence it would multiply his pleasures. ... Civilization ha…
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way. - Isabelle Eberhardt
One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied b… - Isabelle Eberhardt
The cowardly belief that a person must stay in one place is too reminiscent of the unquestioning resignation of animals, beasts of burden stupefied b…
Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solita… - Isabelle Eberhardt
Life on the open road is liberty... to be alone, to have few needs, to be unknown, everywhere a foreigner and at home, and to walk grandly and solita…
I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy. - Isabelle Eberhardt
I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.
A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places. - Isabelle Eberhardt
A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.
For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life - Isabelle Eberhardt
For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life
I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for t… - Isabelle Eberhardt
I will only ever be drawn to people who suffer from that special and fertile anguish called self-doubt, or the thirst for the ideal, and desire for t…
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