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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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"From the happy expression on their faces you might have supposed that they welcomed the war. I have met with men who loved stamps, and stones, and snakes, but I could not imagine any man loving war."
"There is no evil in the atom; only in men's souls."
"Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'"
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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."
"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
"Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own."
"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."
"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."
"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
"I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it."
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