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"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."
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"I'm such a girl for the living room. I really like to stay in my nest and not move. I travel in my mind, and that that's a rigorous state of journeying for me. My body isn't that interested in moving from place to place."
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"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."
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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."
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"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."
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"Queequeg was a native of Kokovoko, an island far away to the West and South. It is not down in any map; true places never are."
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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
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"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."
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"Before he sets out the traveller must possess fixed interests and facilities to be served by travel. If he drifted aimlessly from country to country he would not travel but only wander ramble as a tramp. The traveller must be somebody and come from somewhere so his definite character and moral traditions may supply an organ and a point of comparison for his observations."
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"Men from the mountains always dream of the sea, and above all things I love to travel."
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"Hawaii is not a state of mind, but a state of grace."
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"Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution."
Happiness
"The artist must be in his work as God is in creation, invisible and all-powerful; one must sense him everywhere but never see him."
Work
"Caught up in life, you see it badly. You suffer from it or enjoy it too much. The artist, in my opinion, is a monstrosity, something outside of nature."
Nature
"Happiness is a monstrosity! Punished are those who seek it."
Happiness
"The only way to avoid being unhappy is to close yourself up in Art and to count for nothing all the rest."
Art
"Life must be a constant education; one must learn everything, from speaking to dying."
Life
"As a rule we disbelieve all the facts and theories for which we have no use."
Fact
"Everything one invents is true, you may be perfectly sure of that. Poetry is as precise as geometry."
Poetry
"Our ignorance of history causes us to slander our own times."
History
"Woman is a vulgar animal from whom man has created an excessively beautiful ideal."
Man
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