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The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

Beryl Markham

The world grows bigger as the light leaves it. There are no boundaries and no landmarks. The trees and the rocks and the anthills begin to disappear, one by one, whisked away under the magical cloak of evening.
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Dark Landmarks Light Rocks
It is not fickle, but because it has mothered not only men, but races, and cradles not only cities, but civilizations – and seen them die, and seen new ones born again – Africa can be dispassionate, indifferent, warm, or cynical, replete with the weariness of too much wisdom.
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Again Born Civilization Country
To see ten thousand animals untamed and not branded with the symbols of human commerce is like scaling an unconquered mountain for the first time, or like finding a forest without roads or footpaths, or the blemish of an axe.
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Animal Mountain Nature
You learn to watch other people, but you never watch yourself because you strive against loneliness. If you read a book, or shuffle a deck of cards, or care for a dog, you are avoiding yourself.
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Book Card Care Red Shuffle Strive
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing
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Different Mean Silence
A map says to you. Read me carefully, follow me closely, doubt me not… I am the earth in the palm of your hand.
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Doubt Hands Maps
There are all kinds of silences and each of them means a different thing. There is the silence that comes with morning in a forest, and this is different from the silence of a sleeping city.
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Mean Morning Sleep
If your hunch proves a good one, you were inspired; if it proves bad, you are guilty of yielding to thoughtless impulse.
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Guilty Hunches Inspired
I learned to watch, to put my trust in other hands than mine. And I learned to wander. I learned what every dreaming child needs to know — that no horizon is so far that you cannot get above it or beyond it.
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Dreaming Horizon Learn Mine Wander
Conformation … but not much else. Breeding, but too small a heart. You saw it everywhere – in men, in horses, and in women.
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Heart Horse Men
You can live a lifetime and at the end of it, know more about other people than you know about yourself.
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Knowledge Lifetime People
That’s what makes death so hard–unsatisfied curiosity
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Curiosity Hard Unsatisfied
After that, work and hope. But never hope more than you work
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Hope More Work
It is absurd for a man to kill an elephant. It is not brutal, it is not heroic, and certainly it is not easy.
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Animals Elephant Men
The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.
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Cards Deck Loneliness Natural
Even beat, can ever hope to experience it, except only as a bystander might experience a Masai war dance knowing nothing of its music nor the meaning of its steps.
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Experience Meaning Nothing Step

The abhorrence of loneliness is as natural as wanting to live at all.

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