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“The hush of the night sky is the silence of a graveyard.”
― The Great Silence
― The Great Silence
“Have you also learned that secret from the river; that there is no such thing as time?" That the river is everywhere at the same time, at the source and at the mouth, at the waterfall, at the ferry, at the current, in the ocean and in the mountains, everywhere and that the present only exists for it, not the shadow of the past nor the shadow of the future.”
― Siddhartha
― Siddhartha
“Days of slow walking are very long: they make you live longer, because you have allowed every hour, every minute, every second to breathe, to deepen, instead of filling them up by straining the joints…”
― A Philosophy of Walking
― A Philosophy of Walking
“But the landscape of devastation is still a landscape. There is beauty in ruins.”
― Regarding the Pain of Others
― Regarding the Pain of Others
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