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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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"No theory is good unless it permits, not rest, but the greatest work. No theory is good except on condition that one use it to go on beyond."

"Old hands soil, it seems, whatever they caress, but they too have their beauty when they are joined in prayer. Young hands were made for caresses and the sheathing of love. It is a pity to make them join too soon."

"One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time."

"To what a degree the same past can leave different marks - and especially admit of different interpretations."

"Man is more interesting than men. God made him and not them in his image. Each one is more precious than all."

"It is not always by plugging away at a difficulty and sticking to it that one overcomes it; often it is by working on the one next to it. Some things and some people have to be approached obliquely, at an angle."
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