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Isabelle Eberhardt Quotes: Death does not frighten me but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.
         

Death does not frighten me but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.


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Death does not frighten me but dying obscurely and above all uselessly does.
         



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Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.



The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.



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 solitarily in conquest of the world.

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 solitarily in conquest of the world.



A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.



But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.

But the vagrant owns the whole vast earth that ends only at the nonexistent horizon, and his empire is an intangible one, for his domination and enjoyment of it are things of the spirit.



One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.



For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life

For now it seems that by advancing into unknown territories, I entered into my life



I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.

I feel alone, free, and detached from everything in the world, and I'm happy.



From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.

From every ruin, life springs up again and everything that dies is born again.



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The savage hatred I feel for crowds is getting worse, natural enemies that they are of imagination and of thought.





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And I walked, I walked through the light air; I moved with the morning.



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