There is nothing like being left alone again, to walk peacefully with oneself in the woods. To boil one's coffee and fill one's pipe, and to think idly and slowly as one does it. 

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In old age... we are like a batch of letters that someone has sent. We are no longer in the past, we have arrived.

Knut Hamsun (Wandereres, 1909)

When good befalls a man he calls it Providence, when evil fate.

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In my solitude, many miles from men and houses, I am in a childishly happy and carefree state of mind, which you are incapable of understanding unless someone explains it to you.

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