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"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."
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"An artist is a dreamer consenting to dream of the actual world."
"They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say."
"Embrace the possibility of a fulfilled dream."
"In my dream I know I am falling. But there is no up or down, no walls or sides or ceilings, just the sensation of cold and darkness everywhere. I am so scared I could scream. But when I open my mouth, nothing happens. And I wonder if you fall forever and never touch down, is it really still falling? I think I will fall forever."
"Talk about it only enough to do it. Dream about it only enough to feel it. Think about it only enough to understand it. Contemplate it only enough to be it."
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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."
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
"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."
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