That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.
In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are… - Nicolas Bouvier
In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are…
- Nicolas Bouvier
That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like wat… - Nicolas Bouvier
That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like wat…
Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you. - Nicolas Bouvier
Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.
A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is… - Nicolas Bouvier
A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is…
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s us… - Nicolas Bouvier
Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s us…
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