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All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end.

— Lucius Shepard

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Every object, the old man had said, is but an interpretation of every other object. There is no sure knowledge, only endless process.

Green Eyes (1984)

“Find your own answers, your own salvation. If you can’t do that,” said Donnell, “then to Hell with you.”

Green Eyes (1984)

Everything I've ever known has been no more than a powerful conviction.

A Walk in the Garden (2003)

I yearned for that future. I wanted to live in the illusion that persuades us that true-life experience can be obtained on the Internet.

I submit that all psychotherapy is manipulation; that as psychiatrists we do not heal people, but manipulate their neuroses into functional modes.

Green Eyes (1984)

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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

In your journey, be prepared to encounter an array of obstacles – some steep, some flat – for that's the nature of the path.

Sanu Sharma

Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.

Richard Francis Burton

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

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