Where you come from is gone, where you thought you were going to never was there, and where you are is no good unless you can get away from it.
–Flannery O’Connor, Wise Blood
‘You must journey down another road,’ he answered, when he saw me lost in tears, ‘if ever you hope to leave this wilderness.’
–Dante, Paradisio
I simply cannot see where there is to get to.
–Sylvia Plath, “The Moon and the Yew Tree”
Never before had a mind come to a more majestic halt.
–Georg Christoph Lichtenberg, Aphorisms
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