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"Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen."
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"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
"Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own."
"I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
"It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better."
"The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth."
"One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind."
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
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