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"Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years."
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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."

"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."

"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."

"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."

"We travel to see the reflection of our minds on the mirror of changes so that we may enrich ourselves."
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"It was as if all of the happiness, all of the magic of this blissful hour had flowed together into these stirring, bittersweet tones and flowed away, becoming temporal and transitory once more."

"The world is not imperfect or slowly evolving along a path to perfection. No, it is perfect at every moment, every sin already carries grace in it."

"It was still quiet in the house, and not a sound was heard from outside, either. Were it not for this silence, my reverie would probably have been disrupted by reminders of daily duties, of getting up and going to school."

"The marvel of the Bhagavad-Gita is its truly beautiful revelation of life's wisdom which enables philosophy to blossom into religion."

"I was out of my bed in one second, trembling with excitement, and I dashed to the door and into the adjoining room, where I could watch the streets below from the windows."

"But your questions, which are unanswerable without exception, all spring from the same erroneous thinking."

"It is not Kafka's fault that his wonderful writings have lately turned into a fad, and are read by people who have neither the ability nor the desire to absorb literature."

"When trying to remember my share in the glow of the eternal present, in the smile of God, I return to my childhood, too, for that is where the most significant discoveries turn up."

"It was morning; through the high window I saw the pure, bright blue of the sky as it hovered cheerfully over the long roofs of the neighboring houses. It too seemed full of joy, as if it had special plans, and had put on its finest clothes for the occasion."
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