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"There is nothing like a train journey for reflection."
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"Solitude is a wonderful treasure the world is still yet to discover."

"Puritanism. The haunting fear that someone, somewhere, may be happy."

"I don't dream. Come to think of it, i haven't had any dreams in a long time."

"I had begun to feel that life was a repetition of the same thing; that there was nothing new either in me or in him; and that, on the contrary, we kept going back as it were on what was old."

"We must stop calling bribes in our higher institutions "helping my child to gain admission."

"The greatest joy is to be a mirror of God's love."

"You are created to reflect heaven on earth."

"I see that the culture that is prevalent right now in Nigeria and indeed Africa is the culture of GET RICH QUICK."

"As a matter of fact life itself is measured by time."

"Find solitude and discover ways to add value to yourself."
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"Move to a new country and you quickly see that visiting a place as a tourist, and actually moving there for good, are two very different things."


"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."


"My father never told us how the stories worked. He didn't reveal the layers, the nuggets of information, the fragments of truth and fantasy. He didn't need to -- because, given the right conditions, the stories activated, sowing themselves."


"Back at the Chateau Windsor there was a rat-like scratching at the door of my room. Vinod, the youngest servant, came in with a soda water. He placed it next to the bag of toffees. Then he watched me read. I was used to being observed reading. Sometimes the room would fill like a railway station at rush hour and I would be expected to cure widespread boredom."


"My journey to the land of the Shuar tribe had taught me the importance of practical gifts."


"Lured by the wilderness, and by the chance of spotting rare desert elephants, a few intrepid tourists make their way to the Skeleton Coast each year. It's just about as remote as any tourist destination on earth, but one that pays fabulous dividends."


"For me, nature is something you watch on the Discovery Channel, or on the evening news -- as you learn how much more of it's been savaged to make way for the Blackberry realm that is my home."


"The very fact that a Frenchman was prepared, after tow minutes of conversation, to be so friendly towards anyone, especially one who had come from England, made me restless."
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