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"One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things."
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"Perhaps it's my natural pessimism, but it seems that an awfully large part of travel these days is to see things while you still can."
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"The thing about Ayers Rock is that by the time you finally get there you are already a little sick of it."
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"I built my home in the feeling of waking up at dawn in a new city, where every road is the right road because there is no ordinary. Everything is as profound as you make it."
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"The photograph reverses the purpose of travel, which until now had been to encounter the strange and unfamiliar."
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"But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses."
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"It always rains on tents. Rainstorms will travel thousands of miles, against prevailing winds for the opportunity to rain on a tent."
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"A fondness for roving, for making a name for themselves in their onw country, and for boasting of what they had seen in their travels, was so strong in our two wanderers, that they resolved to be no longer happy; and demanded permission of the king to leave the country."
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"He didn't really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself."
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"We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off."
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"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."
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"The man who looks for security, even in the mind, is like a man who would chop off his limbs in order to have artificial ones which will give him no pain or trouble."
Man
"Until we accept the fact that life itself is founded in mystery, we shall learn nothing."
Life
"We should read to give our souls a chance to luxuriate."
Chance
"Up on the Brooklyn Bridge a man is standing in agony, waiting to jump, or waiting to write a poem, or waiting for the blood to leave his vessels because if he advances another foot the pain of his love will kill him."
Love
"I want to undress you, vulgarize you a bit."
Affection
"I think if Jeremy Corbyn got a cloak, he'd make a very good Gandalf."
Humor
"No stone was laid upon another with love or reverence; no street was laid for dance or joy. One thing has been added to another in a mad scramble to fill the belly, and the streets smell of empty bellies and full bellies and bellies half full. The streets smell of a hunger which has nothing to do with love; they smell of the belly which is insatiable and of the creations of the empty belly which are null and void."
Society
"There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a song, composing a symphony, devising new invention, creating a vast industry."
Creativity
"Life's wildest moment---she kneels on the sidewalk. Everything else she does is lies, lies."
Deception
"Life is 440 horsepower in a 2-cylinder engine."
Life
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