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When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

— Edward Dahlberg

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Nobody heard her tears; the heart is a fountain of weeping water which makes no noise in the world.

Because I Was Flesh (1963)

What most men desire is a virgin who is a whore.

Utility is our national shibboleth: the savior of the American businessman is fact and his uterine half-brother, statistics.

Bosch is great because what he imagines in color can be translated into justice.

The greater part of your misogamy is venal; the other cause of your invective humbug is that you're a muggish homuncle who couldn't raise a flickering ember in a vagabond-laced mutton.

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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.

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Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.

Richard Francis Burton

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

Lucius Shepard

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