"War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus."
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"Wherever you go, you take yourself with you."
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"Take your time, think a lot, Why, think of everything you've got. For you will still be here tomorrow, but your dreams may not. From the moment I could talk I was ordered to listen. Now there's a way and I know that I have to go away. I know I have to go."
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"We gotta get out while we're young, 'cause tramps like us, baby we were born to run."
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"The airplane has unveiled for us the true face of the earth."
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"As you walk and eat and travel, be where you are. Otherwise you will miss most of your life."
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"Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel."
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"We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there."
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"The journey is part of the experience - an expression of the seriousness of one's intent. One doesn't take the A train to Mecca."
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"Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking."
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"Do not follow where the path may lead."
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"Curiosity is, in great and generous minds, the first passion and the last."
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"Airplane travel is nature's way of making you look like your passport photo."
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"It’s an irritating reality that many places and events defy description. Angkor Wat and Machu Picchu, for instance, seem to demand silence, like a love affair you can never talk about. For a while after, you fumble for words, trying vainly to assemble a private narrative, an explanation, a comfortable way to frame where you’ve been and whats happened. In the end, you’re just happy you were there - with your eyes open - and lived to see it."
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""What place would you advise me to visit now?" he asked. "The planet Earth," replied the geographer. "It has a good reputation.""
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"My soul is from elsewhere, I'm sure of that, and I intend to end up there."
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"If you’re twenty-two, physically fit, hungry to learn and be better, I urge you to travel – as far and as widely as possible. Sleep on floors if you have to. Find out how other people live and eat and cook. Learn from them – wherever you go."
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"Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate."
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"How do you expect the Germans to revolt when they don't even dare walk on the grass?"
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"Life is beautiful if you are on the road to somewhere"
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