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"There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men."
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"Opposition may become sweet to a man when he has christened it persecution."
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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."
"I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?"
"One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible."
"One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind."
"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."
"The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth."
"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
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