"Though I liked the companionship and it had considerably lessened the anxiety of our wait..., it nevertheless deprived me of the greatest thrill the sense of discovery had given me on previous journeys. I had lost the intense joy, the intoxication, of blazing my own trail and the proud sense of being able to get through it alone..."
Ella Maillart, on traveling with a companion
Life is a tradeoff, it seems. To find that glorious sense of discovery, that intoxication, one must needs be alone. And then there is no one ever to share the intensity of that intoxication. Still, it is the solitary path whose siren song I cannot ignore.
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