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"The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be."
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"Whoever fights monsters should see to it that in the process he does not become a monster. And if you gaze long enough into an abyss, the abyss will gaze back into you."
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"Whoever feels predestined to see and not to believe will find all believers too noisy and pushy: he guards against them."
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"I am only one, but I am one. I cannot do everything, but I can do something. And I will not let what I cannot do interfere with what I can do."
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"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."

"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."

"Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end."

"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."

"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."

"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."

"I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?"

"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."

"I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values."
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