Isabelle Eberhardt
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"Isabelle Eberhardt" was a Swiss explorer and writer who lived and travelled extensively in North Africa. For her time she was a liberated individual who rejected conventional European morality in favour of her own path and that of Islam. She died in a Flash flood/flash-flood in the desert at the age of 27.

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I am not afraid of death, but would not want to die in some obscure or pointless way.

The farther behind I leave the past, the closer I am to forging my own character.

One must never look for happiness: one meets it by the way.

I am full of the sorrow that goes with changes in surroundings, those successive stages of annihilation that slowly lead to the great and final void.

A nomad I will remain for life, in love with distant and uncharted places.