Isabelle Eberhardt Quotes

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

Isabelle Eberhardt
A nomad I was even when I was very small and would stare at the road, that white spellbinding road headed straight for the unknown... a nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.

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One must never look for happiness. One meets it by the way — but it is always going in the opposite direction.

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

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Oh, to lie upon the rugs of some silent mosque, far from the noise of wanton city life, and, eyes closed, gaze turned heavenwards, listen to Islam's song for ever!

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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 the soul's mystical fire. Self-satisfaction because of some material accomplishment will never be for me. The truly great are those who quest for better spiritual selves.

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I think it is impossible for human minds to think of Death as a final, irrevocable end to life.

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I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.

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

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

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To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.

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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.

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

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Oh, if at every moment of our lives we could know the consequences of some of the utterings, thoughts and deeds that seem so trivial and unimportant at the time! And should we not conclude from such examples that there is no such thing in life as unimportant moments devoid of meaning for the future?

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