"Travelling is almost like talking with those of other centuries."
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"Everybody seems to wonder what it's like down here. I gotta get away from this day-to-day running around. Everybody knows this is nowhere."
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"A boat is always safe in the harbor, but that's not what boats are built for."
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"Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places."
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"An inconvenience is an adventure wrongly considered."
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"The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one's own country as a foreign land."
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"... we might say that the earth has a spirit of growth; that its flesh is the soil, its bones the arrangement and connection of the rocks of which the mountains are composed, its cartilage the tufa, and its blood the springs of water."
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"Man is flying too fast for a world that is round. Soon he will catch up with himself in a great rear end collision."
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"Everything flows and nothing abides. Everything gives way and nothing stays fixed."
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"There is no unhappiness like the misery of sighting land (and work) again after a cheerful, careless voyage."
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"We wish to learn all the curious, outlandish ways of all the different countries, so that we can "show off" and astonish people when we get home. We wish to excite the envy of our untraveled friends with our strange foreign fashions which we can't shake off."
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"He must have travelled everywhere, at least in the spirit."
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"As her time in Florence drew to a close she was only at ease amongst those to whom she felt indifferent."
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"I like people who are enthused about things they do, like travel, sports, work. I like being with people who have things they're excited about."
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"Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions."
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"Gonna travel, gonna travel wild and free I'm gonna pack my bags because this great big world is calling me"
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"Travel teaches toleration."
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"Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death."
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"Without adventure civilization is in full decay."
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"The vitality of thought is in adventure. Ideas won't keep. Something must be done about them. When the idea is new, its custodians have fervor, live for it, and if need be, die for it."
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