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The spirit of man is nomad, his blood bedouin, and love is the aboriginal tracker on the faded desert spoor of his lost self; and so I came to live my life not by conscious plan or prearranged design but as someone following the flight of a bird.

— Laurens van der Post A Walk with a White Bushman (1986)

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We suffer from a hubris of the mind. We have abolished superstition of the heart only to install a superstition of the intellect in its place.

Human beings are perhaps never more frightening than when they are convinced beyond doubt that they are right.

The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)

Men are never alone because that which, acknowledged or unacknowledged, dreams through them is always by their side.

By chance (to use the only phrase we have for describing one of the most significant manifestations of life).

The Lost World of the Kalahari (1958)

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)

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