I won't be no run away, 'cuz I won't run.

- Matt Berninger

THe sensation of freedom that travel brings? I can have it by going from Lisbon to Benfica, and have it more intensely than one who goes from Lisbon to CHina, because if the freedom isn’t in me, then I won’t have it no matter where I go. ‘Any road,’ said Carlyle, ‘this simple Entepfuhl road, will lead you to the end of the World.’ But the Entepfuhl road, if it is followed all the way to the end, returns to Entepfuhl; so that Entepfuhl, where we already were, is the same end of the world we set out to find.

Condillac begins his celebrated book with: ‘No matter how high we climb or how low we descend, we never escape our sensations.’ WE never disembark from ourselves. WE never attain another existence unless we other ourselves by actively, vividly imagining who we are. The true landscapes are those we ourselves create since, being their gods, we see them as they truly are, which is however we created them. None of the four corners of the world is the one that interests me that I can truly see; it’s the fifth corner that I travel in, and it belongs to me.

- Fernando Pessoa, the Book of Disquiet (of course). Though I agree incredibly with what he is saying, its excerpts like these that make me wonder just how terribly miserable he must have been as he wrote such a wisdom to be forever regarded as such.

“I know that running away seems like a good idea now but I promise you, you will take this feeling with you wherever you go.It will not leave you until you deal with it. And it won’t leave you even then, but it will lessen. And believe it or not, eventually you will be able to draw strength from this experience that you never imagined possible.” - Paul from HBO’s In Treatment.