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"You can feel as brave as Columbus starting for the unknown the first time you enter a Chinese lane full of boys laughing at you, or when you risk climbing down in a Tibetan pub for a meal of rotten meat."
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"Time is standing still. We are measuring ourselves by how far we are going."
"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
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"One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder."
"Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive."
"When I crossed Asia with my friend Peter Fleming, we spoke to no one but each other during many months, and we covered exactly the same ground. Nevertheless my journey differed completely from his."
"Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance."
"The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons."
"Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own."
"The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character."
"The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself."
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