Quotes from Isabelle Eberhardt

To have a home, a family, a property or a public function, to have a definite means of livelihood and to be a useful cog in the social machine, all these things seem necessary, even indispensable, to the vast majority of men, including intellectuals, and including even those who think of themselves as wholly liberated. And yet such things are only a different form of slavery that comes of contact with others, especially regulated and continued contact.

No prayers, no medicines, merely the ineffable happiness of dying.

O ato de partir é o mais corajoso e o mais belo. Estar só, ser livre de necessidades, ser ignorada, estrangeira e nativa em todos os lugares e caminhar, solitária e grande, à conquista do mundo.

Never give your soul to a creature, because it belongs to God alone; see in all creatures a motive for rejoicing, in homage to the Creator; never seek yourself in another, but discover yourself in yourself

Quand mon coeur souffrait, il commençait à vivre.

Excités par une jument noire, née sous le ciel brûlant de la lointaine In-Salah, les étalons piaffaient, frémissaient et hennissaient, courbant avec grâce leurs cous puissants sous la lourde crinière libre.

El mundo se dirige hacia la tumba como la noche hacia el alba.

O ato de partir é o mais corajoso e o mais belo. Estar só, ser livre de necessidades, ser ignorado, estrangeiro e nativo em todos os lugares e caminhar, solitário e grande, à conquista do mundo.

To be alone is to be free, and freedom was the only happiness accessible to my nature.