“He went the way he had to go; rather nonchalantly and unsteadily, whistling to himself, gazing into vacancy with his head tilted to one side. And if it was the wrong way, then that was because for certain people no such thing as a right way exists. When he was asked what on earth he intended to do with his life, he would give various answers; for he would often remark (and had already written the observation down) that he carried within himself a thousand possible ways of life, although at the same time privately aware that none of them was possible at all………………”

(From Tonio Kroger, by Thomas Mann)

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If you don't know where you're going, any road will get you there.
(George Harrison – Any Road)

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If you don't know where you're going, you won't know it when you get there.

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"Come, it's pleased so far," thought Alice and she went on. "Would you tell me, please, which way I ought to go from here?"

"That depends a good deal on where you want to get to," said the Cat.

"I don't much care where--" said Alice.

"Then it doesn't matter which way you go," said the Cat.

"-- so long as I get somewhere," Alice added as an explanation.

"Oh, you're sure to do that," said the Cat, "if you only walk long enough."

(Alice in Wonderland, Lewis Carroll)

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"If a man knows not what harbor he seeks, any wind is the right wind."
(Seneca (c. 5 B.C.-A.D. c. 65), Roman writer, philosopher, statesman)

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"He goeth the furthest who knows not whither he is going." --(Oliver Cromwell)