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All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

Book by Annemarie Schwarzenbach · 8 quotes · Swiss, Travel Writing, Women Writers

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“Letters have time, time costs nothing in these parts-let's return to the melons and peaches of Afghanistan.”

Time Letters Desert Afghanistan Weary Travel Writing Indolence Travelling Women Writers Travellers

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“In the first hour of the new day, in the cold, strong wind that already reaches our native shores, yes, in this one moment of eternally returning regret I realise: what staggers us, over and over again, is the morning splendour of departure!”

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“This sufficed: the overwhelming monument to the man who had not feared the poverty and grandeur of the steppe, so alien to all human measure. I breathed deep and tried, despite all, to salute life...”

Landscape Afghanistan Swiss Women Writers Nomads Steppe Hauntingly Beautiful

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“What were the present and future to him, he who did not fear the sandstorm? Did he know what fortune and misfortune mean, and what our tortured hearts called hope?”

Afghanistan Travel Writing Swiss Women Writers Present Moment Living Deserts Sandstorm Hauntingly Beautiful

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“What was I waiting for? For signs and miracles, stars on the firmament..?”

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“Of all the names that linger in my memory after a long journey, this one is the dearest to me (Therapia). Perhaps because it sounds so Greek, blithe as a swelling paean to carefree days spent on lovely shores? Perhaps because it came at the beginning and now belongs to a long ago, glorified time-for the journey had just begun.”

Exotic Traveller Travel Writing Past And Present Swiss Women Writers Amazing Writing Travelling To A Foreign Country

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“I am left with the magic, the name, the heart miraculously touched.”

Moving Magic Afghanistan Travel Writing Heartfelt Swiss Women Writers

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“I saw it dissolve into a strangely clear horizon-there, a striated pyramid, stood the extinct volcano, a pain filled, deeply moving sight: permanence.”

Afghanistan Mountains Travel Writing Swiss Travelling Hindu Women Writers Horizons

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