The Nice Thing About Strangers
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A Heartening Tip for Homebodies
Travel? One need only exist to travel. I go from day to day, as from station to station, in the train of my body or my destiny, leaning out over the streets and squares, over people’s faces and gestures, always the same and always different, just like scenery.
It is in us that scenery is scenic. If I imagine it, I create it; if I create it, it exists; if it exists, then I see it like any other scenery.
Life is what we make of it. Travel is the traveller. What we see isn’t what we see but what we are.
-Fernando Pessoa. The Book of Disquiet.
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Borrowed a part of this for my blog post of 12-19-14.
Does the travelling companion have a name ???
Love, hugs and keep on travelling … ME
🙂 Yes, his name is Mooch. My aunt gave me this money back when I was in college, and my brother and I had it in our kitchen for a while. Then SOMEHOW, Mooch found his way into my suitcase. 🙂 My brother also gave him the mustache.
I’m glad I made a post on your page! I’ll mark it on my calendar so I don’t miss it. 🙂
Paige
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Reblogged this on Christine R and commented:
I found these admirable words on Paige’s blog.
“It is in us that scenery is scenic.”
-Fernando Pessoa. The Book of Disquiet.
Reblogged. Thanks Paige. Cute dogs before, cute monkey now! 😀
You do find the most apt quotes, Paige ! – dunno how you do it. 🙂
Thank you! 🙂 I’ve been keeping my favorite lines from books for ages. It’s nice to be able to put the stockpiling to good use these days.
All my best,
Paige