Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.
Anything was better than to be loved for one's things. - Bruce Chatwin
Anything was better than to be loved for one's things.
- Bruce Chatwin
Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking. - Bruce Chatwin
Because they knew each other's thoughts, they even quarrelled without speaking.
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with stri… - Bruce Chatwin
I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with stri…
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country:… - Bruce Chatwin
Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country:…
I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god. - Bruce Chatwin
I haven't got any special religion this morning. My God is the God of Walkers. If you walk hard enough, you probably don't need any other god.
To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe. - Bruce Chatwin
To lose a passport was the least of one’s worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.
Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin. - Bruce Chatwin
Walking is a virtue, tourism is a deadly sin.
For life is a journey through a wilderness - Bruce Chatwin
For life is a journey through a wilderness
A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which … - Bruce Chatwin
A Sufi manual, the Kashf-al-Mahjub, says that, towards the end of his journey, the dervish becomes the Way not the wayfarer, i.e. a place over which …
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