IEIsabelle Eberhardt

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Isabelle Eberhardt

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01Undated

For those who know the value of and exquisite taste of solitary freedom (for one is only free when alone), the act of leaving is the bravest and most beautiful of all.

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02Undated

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.

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03Undated

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.

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04Undated

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

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05Undated

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

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06Undated

I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

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