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"Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart."
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"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."
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"The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it."
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"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses."
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"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."
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"A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country."
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"He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself."
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"Everywhere you travel to, be fully there."
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"Science contributes to our culture in many ways, as a creative intellectual activity in its own right, as the light which has served to illuminate man's place in the universe, and as the source of understanding of man's own nature."
Science
"The complacent the self-indulgent the soft societies are about to be swept away with the debris of history."
Warning
"Man is still the most extraordinary computer of all."
Computer
"When we got into office, the thing that surprised me most was to find that things were just as bad as we'd been saying they were."
Office
"The best road to progress is freedom's road."
Progress
"Sure it's a big job; but I don't know anyone who can do it better than I can."
Job
"My fellow Americans, ask not what your country can do for you, ask what you can do for your country."
Writing
"All free men wherever they may live are citizens of Berlin. And therefore as a free man I take pride in the words 'Ich bin ein Berliner.'"
Patriotism
"Once you say you're going to settle for second, that's what happens to you in life."
Life
"I am the man who accompanied Jacqueline Kennedy to Paris, and I have enjoyed it."
Man
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