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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."

"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."

"London is a riddle. Paris is an explanation."

"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."

"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."

"Our deeds still travel with us from afar, and what we have been makes us what we are."

"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."

"I am blessed for what I have, but I believed in it from the beginning. Today, the dream is the same: I still want to travel, I still want to entertain, and I most certainly still want to have fun."
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"What came to me as a revelation was the use of rhythm in developing an overall structure in music."

"Traditions are imploding and exploding everywhere - everything is coming together, for better or worse, and we can no longer pretend we're all living in different worlds because we're on different continents."

"I travel the world, and I'm happy to say that America is still the great melting pot - maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean."
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