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“Loneliness is an aspect of natural human egotism.”
― Antwerp
― Antwerp

“Only the living seem incoherent. Death closes the series of events that constitutes their lives. So we resign ourselves to finding a meaning for them. To refuse them this would amount to accepting that a life, and thus life itself, is absurd. Yours had not yet attained the coherence of things done. Your death gave it this coherence.”
― Suicide
― Suicide

“But simultaneously he situates himself in relation to time. He takes his place in it. He admits that he stands at a certain point on a curve that he acknowledges having to travel to its end. He belongs to time, and by the horror that seizes him, he recognizes his worst enemy.”
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays
― The Myth of Sisyphus and Other Essays

“I no longer ask for all the loneliness of love or the tranquility of love or for the mirrors.”
― Antwerp
― Antwerp
“What’s the most important thing people can learn from traveling? A broader perspective. They can see themselves as part of a family of humankind. It’s just quite an adjustment to find out that the people who sit on toilets on this planet are the odd ones. Most people squat. You’re raised thinking this is the civilized way to go to the bathroom. But it’s not. It’s the Western way to go to the bathroom. But it’s not more civilized than somebody who squats. A man in Afghanistan once told me that a third of this planet eats with spoons and forks, and a third of the planet eats with chopsticks, and a third eats with their fingers. And they’re all just as civilized as one another.”
― The Digital Nomad Survival Guide: How to Successfully Travel the World While Working Remotely
― The Digital Nomad Survival Guide: How to Successfully Travel the World While Working Remotely

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