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"Don't talk about heaven if you've never been to Bali."

"Without travels, our existence, our memories, our literature, our dreams, our everything would be very poor, very boring, very limited!"

"Everywhere, I am welcome, I will stay there."

"Life is a journey through either experiences or experiment."

"The most beautiful thing about the most beautiful roads is that the destination is forgotten and the journey becomes the destination itself!"

"We travel not just to see the beauty of new places but to see our own beauty in a new environment."

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

"Every new travel brings new transformation."
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"The disappearance of the presence of beauty is the most despairing of events on this time-wheel of ours that rolls onward towards death."

"I've seen knives pierce the chest,Children dying in the roadCrawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her hair."

"He was no god, just an artist; and when an artist is a man, he needs a woman to create like a god."

"My Love wakes in a puddle of sunlight.Her hands asleep beside her.Her hair draped on the lawnlike a mantle of cloth.I give her my troth, for our love is wholeI sing her beauty in my soul."

"It was a time I slept in many rooms, called myself by many names. I wandered through the quarters of the city like alluvium wanders the river banks. I knew every kind of joy, ascents of every hue. Mine was the twilight and the morning. Mine was a world of rooftops and love songs."

"Rest in Peace?' Why that phrase? That's the most ridiculous phrase I've ever heard! You die, and they say 'Rest in Peace!'. Why would one need to 'rest' when they're dead?! I spent thousands of years of world history resting. While Agamemnon was leading his ships to Troy, I was resting. While Ovid was seducing women at the chariot races, I was resting. While Jeanne d'Arc was hallucinating, I was resting. I wait until airplanes are scuttling across the sky to burst out onto the scene, and I'm only going to be here for a short while, so when I die, I certainly won't need to rest again! Not while more adventures of the same kind are going on."

"I was forced to wander, having no one, forced by my nature to keep wandering because wandering was the only thing that I believed in, and the only thing that believed in me."

"Everything was brighter and more colorful in those years, as if my childhood was ending in an explosion of unreal passion that made my life feel sacred and holy."
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