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A Philosophy of Walking by Frédéric Gros — WisdomDeck honest review
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A Philosophy of Walking

by Frédéric Gros

Short essays on Nietzsche, Rimbaud, Rousseau, Thoreau, Gandhi and the kinds of walking: slowness, solitude, pilgrimage, escape. French and elegant.

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  1. Walking is freedom.
  2. Slowness is a discipline.
  3. Walk alone sometimes.

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