"The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character."

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"The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character."

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"One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder."

Life

"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."

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"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."

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

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"Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own."

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"I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition."

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

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