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Quotes from Venture to the Interior — Laurens van der Post

1906–1996 South Africa

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Life is its own journey, presupposes its own change and movement, and one tries to arrest them at one's eternal peril.

Venture to the Interior (1951)

It is the not-yet in the now,
The taste of fruit that does not-yet exist
Hanging the blossom on the bough.

Venture to the Interior (1951)

There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living: a way in which life itself is sheer knowing.

Venture to the Interior (1951)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Laurens van der Post (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.