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"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."
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"Travelling allows you to see the world as it is.And that's beautiful."
"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."
"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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"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."
"You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself."
"Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end."
"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
"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."
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."
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