Isabelle Eberhardt

“There is a particular flavor in the loneliness of the desert.”

“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”

“My future, the future of a wanderer, is an eternal series of partings.”

“In the desert, you are free.”

“I will never be a loner. I will always be a nomad.”

“I feel that I have always been a nomad, a traveler at heart.”

“A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.”

“The thirst for the unknown is more imperative than the need for happiness.”

“For the ones whose childhood was darkened by sorrow, the relief of going away is the most delicious of all treats.”

“To travel is to be born and to die at every instant.”

“The right to live, to be oneself, to be whatever one is, is the right of every human being.”

“One has to live a little bit, finally, to be able to write.”

“I am not a writer, I am a traveler.”

“What is the good of moving when you take your sorrows with you?”