It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be missed without being gone; to be loved without satiety. How beautiful one is
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“They were like the men and women who stand about airports and railroad stations; they want to go away, and most of all they want to go away from themselves. For they do not know that they would carry their globes of boredom with them wherever they went.”
― Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
― Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
“It would be good to live in a perpetual state of leave-taking, never to go nor to stay, but to remain suspended in that golden emotion of love and longing; to be missed without being gone; to be loved without satiety. How beautiful one is and how desirable; for in a few moments one will have ceased to exist.”
― Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
― Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
“And the happy discovery of Stella Polaris—which, although it too shifts very minutely in an arc, is constant relatively—was encouraging. Stella Polaris will get you there. And so to the crawling minds Stella Polaris must have been like a very goddess of constancy, a star to love and trust.”
― Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
― Sea of Cortez: A Leisurely Journal of Travel and Research
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