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"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
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"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
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"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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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."
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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
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"Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."
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"Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel."
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"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."
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"Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare."
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"It is as impossible to withhold education from the receptive mind, as it is impossible to force it upon the unreasoning."
Education
"Laughter springs from the lawless part of our nature."
Nature
"We cannot really love anyone with with whom we never laugh."
Love
"It has been wisely said that we cannot really love anybody at whom we never laugh."
Love
"People who cannot recognize a palpable absurdity are very much in the way of civilization."
People
"There are few nudities so objectionable as the naked truth."
Truth
"Conversation between Adam and Eve must have been difficult at times because they had nobody to talk about."
Conversation
"It has been well said that tea is suggestive of a thousand wants, from which spring the decencies and luxuries of civilization."
Civilization
"It is impossible for a lover of cats to banish these alert, gentle, and discriminating friends, who give us just enough of their regard and complaisance to make us hunger for more."
Friendship
"Edged tools are dangerous things to handle, and not infrequently do much hurt."
Hurt
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