“If we are always arriving and departing, it is also
true that we are eternally anchored. One's destination
is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.”

Source: Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

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American novelist 1891–1980

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“One’s destination is never a place, but rather a new way of looking at things.”

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Source: Miller, H. (1957). Big Sur and the Oranges of Hieronymus Bosch

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