Walking is the best way to go more slowly than any other method that has ever been found. To walk, you need to start with two legs. The rest is optio… - Frédéric Gros

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Walking is the best way to go more slowly than any other method that has ever been found. To walk, you need to start with two legs. The rest is optional. If you want to go faster, then don’t walk, do something else: drive, slide or fly. Don’t walk. And when you are walking, there is only one sort of performance that counts: the brilliance of the sky, the splendour of the landscape. Walking is not a sport.
Once on his feet, though, man does not stay where he is.

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Frédéric Gros (born 30 November 1965) is a French philosopher.

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But above all, silence is the dissipation of our language. ... In the silence of a walk, when you end up losing the use of words because by then you are doing nothing but walk, ... in that silence you hear better, because you are finally hearing what has no vocation to be retranslated, recoded, reformatted.

First of all, there is the suspensive freedom that comes by walking, even a simple short stroll: throwing of the burden of cares, forgetting business for a time. You choose to leave the once behind, go out, stroll around, think about other things. With a longer excursion of several days, the process of self-liberation is accentuated: you escape the constraints of work, throw of the yoke of routine.

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Mais être seul alors, vraiment seul cette fois : un. Mais d’abord, on n’est jamais tout à fait seul. Comme écrivait Thoreau : « Je restai tout le matin en bonne compagnie, jusqu’à ce que quelqu’un vienne me rendre visite » (c’était la compagnie des arbres, du soleil, des cailloux). Au fond, c’est de rencontrer l’autre, souvent, qui nous ramène à la solitude. La conversation mène à parler de soi et de ses différences. Et doucement, l’autre nous renvoie à nous-mêmes dans notre histoire et notre identité, ce qui veut dire les incompréhensions et les mensonges. Comme si cela existait.

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