I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen Benjamin Disraeli

we are thickened time Marisa Maderi

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To be so frantic and swing oneself to tell about all types of travel, about all the books that touched the subject, all the categories of adventurers, daredevils, wanderers, lunatics. Is it even possible? Is it possible to write anything about the journey in the face of so many texts that history of the genre serves. How to bring them closer, shorten distance to our time, how refer to them or put one’s own experience against this thick background? In silos of literary excess, how to not manifold...

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THE WANDERER. — He who has attained intellectual emancipation to any extent cannot, for a long time, regard himself otherwise than as a wanderer on the face of the earth and not even as a traveller towards a final goal, for there is no such thing. But he certainly wants to observe and keep his eyes open to whatever actually happens in the world; therefore he cannot attach his heart too firmly to anything individual; he must have in himself something wandering that takes pleasure in change and transitoriness.

Friedrich Nietzsche, Human, All Too Human:A Book for Free Spirits

WĘDROWIEC. – Kto choćby tylko w pewnym stopniu chce osiągnąć wolność rozumu, przez długi czas nie powinien czuć się inaczej na ziemi, tylko...

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