The best place for discovering what a man is is the heart of the desert. Your plane has broken down, and you walk for hours, heading for the little fort at Nutchott. You wait for the mirages of thirst to gape before you. But you arrive and you find an old sergeant who has been isolated for months among the dunes, and he is so happy to be found that he weeps. And you weep, too. In the arching immensity of the night, each tells the story of his life, each offers the other the burden of memories in which the human bond is discovered. Here two men can meet, and they bestow gifts upon each other with the dignity of ambassadors. .Anonymous
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The desert is a place where man can find himself. Here, man can be himself, his true self. In the desert you meet a man who has been lost, and he tells you his story. He shares with you things about himself that he will never tell another soul.
As a result of your meeting here, he realizes that he is a human being, not just a member of an army or a tribe or an institution. The desert is the place where man can be found, and it is also the place where man can discover what kind of human being he truly is deep inside.
Source: A Sense Of Life
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