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"Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly."
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"Travelling allows you to see the world as it is.And that's beautiful."
"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
"It is always sad to leave a place to which one knows one will never return. Such are the melancolies du voyage: perhaps they are one of the most rewarding things about traveling."
"Our bags will be light because it's the best way to travel."
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"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
"We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life."
"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."
"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."
"From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide."
"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
"I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?"
"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."
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