While to live in the past and think of what was good and beautiful about it amounts to a sort of seasoning of the present, the perennial wait for tomorrow is bound to result in chronic discontent that poisons one's entire outlook.
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.
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…
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
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