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"One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm."
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"The limits of your imagination create the boundaries of your world."
"Dream is the realm most people live their life."
"Facts? What are facts? I only know imagination!"
"Dreams are the flowers of imagination which bloom on the fertile grounds of the mind."
"Our imagination is bigger than this universe."
"Human beings must love something, and, in the dearth of worthier objectsof affection, I contrived to find a pleasure in loving and cherishing afaded graven image, shabby as a miniature scarecrow. It puzzles me nowto remember with what absurd sincerity I doated on this little toy, halffancying it alive and capable of sensation. I could not sleep unless it wasfolded in my night-gown; and when it lay there safe and warm, I wascomparatively happy, believing it to be happy likewise."
"When you are very rational, you may not be able to dream or live in a fairy tale."
"The conscious process is reflected in the imagination; the unconscious process is expressed as karma, the generation of actions divorced from thinking and alienated from feeling."
"It is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception and compassion and hope."
"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."
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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."
"Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of."
"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."
"One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible."
"Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own."
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