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"When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes."
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"I'll give you my opinion of the human race in a nutshell... their heart's in the right place, but their head is a thoroughly inefficient organ."

"The mind defines, decides, doubts and divides - only the heart truly binds."

"The coward wretch whose hand and heart Can bear to torture aught below, Is ever first to quail and start From the slightest pain or equal foe."
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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."

"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."

"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."

"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."
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