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"Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it."
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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."
"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."
"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."
"We travel to see the reflection of our minds on the mirror of changes so that we may enrich ourselves."
"With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to resist as the temptation to read promiscuously, omnivorously and without purpose. From time to time, it is true, I make a desperate resolution to mend my ways. I sketch out programmes of useful, serious reading; I try to turn my rambling voyages into systematic tours through the history of art and civilization. But without much success. After a little I relapse into my old bad ways. Deplorable weakness! I try to comfort myself with the hope that even my vices may be of some profit to me."
"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
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"The story was such that I couldn't make a graceful ending and then make a graceful new beginning. I could have, but I didn't want to. So, it isn't the most graceful way of writing a story. This new story is, I think, is pretty good stuff. I'm pleased with it anyway."
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