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1942·London, England

We shall not cease from exploration, and the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time.

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Life is an unfoldment, and the further we travel the more truth we can comprehend.

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No single event can awaken within us a stranger whose existence we had never suspected. To live is to be slowly born.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau·1782

Never did I think so much, never did I realize my own existence so much, never was I so much alive, so much myself, as in those journeys which I made alone and on foot.

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Time present and time past are both perhaps present in time future, and time future contained in time past.

1942·London, England

What we call the beginning is often the end. And to make an end is to make a beginning. The end is where we start from.

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