As man disappears from sight, the land remains.
—Maori proverb
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The soul of a journey is liberty, perfect liberty, to think, feel, do just as one pleases. We go on a journey chiefly to be free of all impediments and of all inconveniences—to leave ourselves behind, much more to get rid of others.
—William Hazlitt, 1822Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
—William James, 1902I am sure of this: that if everybody was to drink their bottle a day, there would not be half the disorders in the world there are now.
—Jane Austen, c. 1798Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny, they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
—George Bernard Shaw, 1903I even gave up, for a while, stopping by the window of the room to look out at the lights and deep, illuminated streets. That’s a form of dying, that losing contact with the city like that.
—Philip K. Dick, 1972The United States has virtually set up an empire on impounded and redistributed water.
—Charles P. Berkey, 1946I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.
—Xenocrates, c. 350 BCWhen one has a famishing thirst for happiness, one is apt to gulp down diversions wherever they are offered.
—Alice Hegan Rice, 1917There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.
—Dante Alighieri, c. 1321Worry over what has not occurred is a serious malady.
—Solomon ibn Gabirol, 1050When they shout “Long live progress,” always ask, “Progress of what?”
—Stanisław Jerzy Lec, 1957Emigration is easy, but immigration is something else. To flee, yes; but to be accepted?
—Victoria Wolff, 1943