Sylvain Tesson quotes
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“Ideologies, like dogs, remain just outside the hermits door.”
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“...those who can bear to observe only unwritten laws-they all head for the taiga.”
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“To be "modern" means refusing to worry about where the benefits of progress actually come from.”
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“It is good to know that out there, in a forest in the world, there is a cabin where something is possible...”
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“I had no idea that reading it would lead me to a cabin. It's dangerous to open a book”
-- Sylvain Tesson
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Source : Abraham Cowley, Samuel Johnson (1822). “The Poems of Abraham Cowley ...”
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Source : "Knight's Treasury of Illustrations". Book by Walter B. Knight, p. 149, 1956.
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“HERMIT, n. A person whose vices and follies are not sociable.”
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“When a hot woman meets a hermit one of them is going to change.”
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Source : Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell (2016). “Pioneer Work in Opening the Medical Profession to Women: Autobiographical Sketches”, p.15, Library of Alexandria
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“[On sociability in Italy:] You may be a hermit or an innkeeper.”
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“Hush! With sudden gush As from a fountain sings in yonder bush The Hermit Thrush.”
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