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"Of all possible debauches, traveling is the greatest that I know; that's the one they invented when they got tired of all the others."
"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
"Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare."
"I am disabled, so I can't travel, and I have not been to any development meetings, but Gary and the others affiliated with the film keep me updated on everything."
"I lie down on many a station platform; I stand before many a soup kitchen; I squat on many a bench; - then at last the landscape becomes disturbing, mysterious, and familiar. It glides past the western windows with its villages, their thatched roofs like caps, pulled over the white-washed, half-timbered houses, its corn-fields, gleaming like mother-of-pearl in the slanting light, its orchards, its barns and old lime trees. The names of the stations begin to take on meaning and my heart trembles. The train stamps and stamps onward. I stand at the window and hold on to the frame. These names mark the boundaries of my youth."
"New York is appalling, fantastically charmless and elaborately dire."
"A danger of travel is that we see things at the wrong time, before we have had a chance to build up the necessary receptivity and when new information is therefore as useless and fugitive as necklace beads without a connecting chain."
"It would be nice to travel if you knew where you were going and where you would live at the end or do we ever know, do we ever live where we live, we're always in other places, lost, like sheep."
Explore more quotes by Rabindranath Tagore
"My day is done, and I am like a boat drawn on the beach, listening to the dance-music of the tide in the evening."
"I slept and dreamt that life was joy. I awoke and saw that life was service. I acted and behold, service was joy."
"Now that a full flood of music has swept over our country, let Nikhil practise his scales, while we rouse the land with our cracked voices."
"I have never been able to make out," I began, "why women are so shy about being caught reading poetry.We men--lawyers, mechanics, or what not--may well feel ashamed. If we must read poetry, it should be at dead of night, within closed doors. But you women are so akin to poesy. The Creator Himself is a lyric poet, and Jayadeva must have practised the divine art seated at His feet."
"From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest."
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm, but to add color to my sunset sky."
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