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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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"I travel not only for the passion and madness and desire of movement, but because travel, like bread and water and air, becomes necessary to a life fully dreamed and lived."
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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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"The subject matter of the stories on the surface... there seem to be a number of stories about travel."
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"To love is to believe, to hope, to know; Tis an essay, a taste of Heaven below!"
Love

"Vexed sailors cursed the rain, for which poor shepherds prayed in vain."
Poor

"Poets lose half the praise they should have got, Could it be known what they discreetly blot."
Poet

"Leaving the old, both worlds at once they view, That stand upon the threshold of the new."
Old

"How small a part of time they share, That are so wondrous sweet and fair!"
Time

"Could we forbear dispute, and practise love, We should agree as angels do above."
Love

"The lark that shuns on lofty boughs to build, Her humble nest, lies silent in the field."
Lie

"And as pale sickness does invade, Your frailer part, the breaches made, In that fair lodging still more clear, Make the bright guest, your soul, appear."
Soul

"The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest."
Fear

"All human things Of dearest value hang on slender strings."
Values
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