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"In Berlin I especially enjoyed the orchestral concerts, and I attended a large number of them. I formed the acquaintance of a good many musicians, several of whom spoke of my playing in high terms."
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"Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone."
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"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"
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"Everywhere, I am welcome, I will stay there."
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"Life is a journey through either experiences or experiment."
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"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"
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"We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment."
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"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."
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"Every travel gives me new thought into life."
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"Every new travel brings new transformation."
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"Life is a beautiful adventure."
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"Southern white people despise the Negro as a race, and will do nothing to aid in his elevation as such; but for certain individuals they have a strong affection, and are helpful to them in many ways."
People
"I thought of Paris as a beauty spot on the face of the earth, and of London as a big freckle."
Beauty
"It is a struggle; for though the black man fights passively, he nevertheless fights; and his passive resistance is more effective at present than active resistance could possibly be. He bears the fury of the storm as does the willow tree."
Man
"But I must own that I also felt stirred by an unselfish desire to voice all the joys and sorrows, the hopes and ambitions, of the American Negro, in classic musical form."
Music
"My mother was kept very busy with her sewing; sometimes she would have another woman helping her."
Family
"Americans are immensely popular in Paris; and this is not due solely to the fact that they spend lots of money there, for they spend just as much or more in London, and in the latter city they are merely tolerated because they do spend."
Money
"Amsterdam was a great surprise to me. I had always thought of Venice as the city of canals; it had never entered my mind that I should find similar conditions in a Dutch town."
Thought
"I believe it to be a fact that the colored people of this country know and understand the white people better than the white people know and understand them."
People
"I had enjoyed life in Paris, and, taking all things into consideration, enjoyed it wholesomely."
Life
"Shortly after this I was made a member of the boys' choir, it being found that I possessed a clear, strong soprano voice. I enjoyed the singing very much."
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