#reisima

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“We are homesick most for the places we have never known.”

Carson McCullers

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“A traveller ! I love his title. A traveler is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from – toward ; it is the history of every one of us.”

~ H. D. Thoreau ; Journal

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Werner Herzog on walking:

We are made for traveling on foot, & in our minds to move at a certain pace, and seeing things with intimacy & seeing the details & being en route, you have only substantial encounters. 

In conversation https://thelostbyway.com/2009/08/werner-herzog-on-walking.html

PAUL HOLDENGRÄBER: You bring up so many of what one might call your obsessions, though I’m not sure you will take well to that word. One of

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‘I am happy only when I am traveling; when I arrive, no matter where, I am suddenly the unhappiest person imaginable. Basically I am one of those people who cannot bear to be anywhere and are happy only between places.’

Thomas Bernard, Wittgenstein’s Nephew

"[E]verybody's poised above the abyss: but some people are always managing to shove the others over the edge: you can't postpone your being shoved over until you've finished living, that isn't permitted, that would be a lie, that would be impertinent, that would be idiotic..."

"[I]t's the abyss that keeps us all alive, only the abyss..."

― from On the Mountain (tr. Russell Stockman)

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To pause there someday

Þrídrangar Lighthouse, Iceland