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"To awaken quite alone in a strange town is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world."
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"Beautiful places are almost alive! When you visit them, you can feel their breaths!"

"As a very young man, I thought of Europe as a place that could not exist except in the imagination, in glorious dreams, and through the careful lies of the silver screen."

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

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

"I am going to the USA to catch sight of a wild porcupine and to give some lectures."

"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."

"Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world."

"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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"There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do."

"Christmas... is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart."

"If we are strong, and have faith in life and its richness of surprises, and hold the rudder steadily in our hands. I am sure we will sail into quiet and pleasent waters for our old age."

"Few are the giants of the soul who actually feel that the human race is their family circle."

"Absence is one of the most useful ingredients of family life, and to dose it rightly is an art like any other."

"The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised."

"Pain and fear and hunger are effects of causes which can be foreseen and known: but sorrow is a debt which someone else makes for us."
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