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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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"When men make themselves into brutes it is just to treat them like brutes."
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"Nothing is poetical if plain daylight is not poetical; and no monster should amaze us if the normal man does not amaze."
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"A man ought to read just as inclination leads him, for what he reads as a task will do him little good."
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"I do not believe in a fate that falls on men however they act; but I do believe in a fate that falls on them unless they act."
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"Whoever has provoked men to rage against him has always gained a party in his favor, too."
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"Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat."
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"No man may make another free."
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"Fable is more historical than fact, because fact tells us about one man and fable tells us about a million men."
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"Our men and women in our armed forces are the real heroes in this conflict."
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"Do we elect a man because of what he stands for, because of where he stands on the issues, because how he makes the nation feel?"
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"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."
Friendship
"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
Impression
"I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition."
Ambition
"The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them."
Perspective
"Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly."
Travel
"You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat."
Time
"I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch."
Values
"That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life."
Life
"Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own."
Humanity
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
Imagination
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