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It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the mélancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most enriching things about traveling.
– Gustave Flaubert, from a letter written to Louis Bouilhet, June 2, 1850
From The Letters of Gustave Flaubert: 1830-1857 (via liquidnight)Source: liquidnight
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I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don’t let anybody tell you different.
– Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country (via liquidnight)Source: liquidnight
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Stare. It’s the way to educate your eyes. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long.
– Walker Evans (via lookingintotheabyss)(via thoughts-like-blades)
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As if the blind rage had washed me clean, rid me of hope; for the first time, in that night alive with signs and stars, I opened myself to the gentle indifference of the world.
– Albert Camus, The Stranger (via liquidnight)(via mudwerks)
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