“Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.”

—  Arturo Pérez-Reverte , book The Fencing Master

Source: The Fencing Master

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Spanish writer and journalist 1951

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