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I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
-Annie Dillard
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I Am A Fugitive And A Vagabond,

Annie Dillard
I am a fugitive and a vagabond, a sojourner seeking signs.
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The signs that presage growth, so similar, it seems to me, to those in early adolescence: discontent, restlessness, doubt, despair, longing, are interpreted falsely as signs of decay. in youth one does not as often misinterpret the signs; one accepts them, quite rightly, as growing pains. one takes them seriously, listens to them, follows where they lead. ... but in the middle age, because of the false assumption that it is a period of decline, one interprets these life-signs, paradoxically, as signs of approaching death.
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The sentence of the first murderer was pronounced by the supreme judge of the universe. was it death? no, it was life. 'a fugitive and a vagabond shalt thou be in the earth'; and 'whosoever slayeth cain, vengeance shall be taken on him sevenfold.
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When someone is seeking, it happens quite easily that he only sees the thing that he is seeking; that he is unable to find anything, unable to absorb anything, because he is only thinking of the thing he is seeking, because he has a goal, because he is obsessed with his goal. seeking means: to have a goal; but finding means: to be free, to be receptive, to have no goal. you, o worthy one, are perhaps indeed a seeker, for in striving towards your goal, you do not see many things that are under your nose.
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Fugitive slaves were rare then, and as a fugitive slave lecturer, i had the advantage of being the first one out.
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When you know that something's going to happen, you'll start trying to see signs of its approach in just about everything. always try to remember that most of the things that happen in this world aren't signs. they happen because they happen, and their only real significance lies in normal cause and effect. you'll drive yourself crazy if you start trying to pry the meaning out of every gust of wind or rain squall. i'm not denying that there might actually be a few signs that you won't want to miss. knowing the difference is the tricky part.
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Truth then seems to me, in the proper import of the word, to signify nothing but the joining or separating of signs, as the things signified by them do agree or disagree one with another. the joining or separating of signs here meant, is what by another name we call proposition. so that truth properly belongs only to propositions: whereof there are two sorts, viz. mental and verbal; as there are two sorts of signs commonly made use of, viz. ideas and words.
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