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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

Andre Gide, French Novelist

Travel, Idea, Company, Writer

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"To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company."

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Tahir Shah, British Author

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"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."

Benjamin Disraeli, British Statesman

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"Every travel gives me new thought into life."

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"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."

Henry Rollins, American Musician

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Paige Davis, American Actress

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"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."

Amit Kalantri, Indian Author

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"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."

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"Ah! Beautiful Paris! Where smiles bloom on stone."

Debasish Mridha, American Author

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"It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse."

William Hazlitt, English Critic

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"The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced."

"Everything has been said before, but since nobody listens we have to keep going back and beginning all over again."

"Work and struggle and never accept an evil that you can change."

"It is unthinkable for a Frenchman to arrive at middle age without having syphilis and the Cross of the Legion of Honor."

""Therefore" is a word the poet must not know."

"Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding."

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"Fish die belly upward, and rise to the surface. Its their way of falling."

"Sin is whatever obscures the soul."

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"What would there be in a story of happiness? Only what prepares it, only what destroys it can be told."

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