Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room Quotes

“After all, is there any person so unhappy, so abandoned, that he doesn’t have a little den into which he can withdraw and hide away from everyone? Nothing more elaborate is needed for the journey.”
― Xavier de Maistre, A Journey Around my Room

“I have come to the conclusion, by way of various observations, that man is composed of a soul and a beast. These two beings are absolutely distinct, but closely fitted together, or one on top of the other, that the soul must have a certain superiority over the beast to be in a position to draw a distinction between them.”
― Xavier de Maistre, Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room

“O sweet solitude! I have known the charms with which you intoxicate your admirers. Woe to the man who cannot be alone for a single hour of his life without feeling the torment of ennui, and who would rather, if he must, converse with fools than with himself!”
― Xavier de Maistre, Journey Around My Room and a Nocturnal Expedition Around My Room