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"The desert is as smooth as marble. By day it forms no shade, and at night it delivers you up, naked, to the wind. Not a tree, not a hedge, not a stone that might have sheltered me. The wind is charging at me like a troop of cavalry on open ground. . . I cannot run, I have no strength left to flee the assassins, and I fall to my knees with my head in my hands, as the sabre stroke descends!"

“What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.”

"Nothing is unbearable. Tomorrow, and the day after tomorrow, I shall learn definitively that nothing is unbearable."

"Little by little, I am abandoned by light. The earth and sky merge gradually. The earth rises and seems to spread like a mist. The first stars tremble as if shimmering in green water. It will be a long time yet before they harden into diamonds. And still longer before I can witness the silent games of the shooting stars."

"In the desert you can feel the passage of time. Under the burning of the sun you are on the march towards the evening, towards that cool breeze which will bathe your limbs and wash away all sweat. Under the burning of the sun, men and animals advance towards that great watering place as surely as towards death. . . . And each day looks as beautiful as the roads that lead to the sea."