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"Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents."
"Be careful going in search of adventure - it's ridiculously easy to find."
"I see my path, but I don't know where it leads."
"What makes a nation in the beginning is a good piece of geography."
"The secret of success is making your vocation your vacation."
"Lord, make me see thy glory in every place."
"I can speak to my soul only when the two of us are off exploring deserts or cities or mountains or roads."
"Never go on trips with anyone you do not love."
"Take care of all your memories. For you cannot relive them."
"An involuntary return to the point of departure is, without doubt, the most disturbing of all journeys."
"I'm always improving and I want to get better and never hit a plateau. I find it an amazing adventure."
"The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see."
"If you don't know where you're going any road will do"
"Listen--are you breathing just a little, and calling it a life?"
"One of the great things about travel is you find out how many good, kind people there are."
"The most beautiful thing in the world is, of course, the world itself."
"Everyone of a hundred thousand cities around the world had its own special sunset and it was worth going there, just once, if only to see the sun go down."
"I beg young people to travel. If you don't have a passport, get one. Take a summer, get a backpack and go to Delhi, go to Saigon, go to Bangkok, go to Kenya. Have your mind blown. Eat interesting food. Dig some interesting people. Have an adventure. Be careful. Come back and you're going to see your country differently, you're going to see your president differently, no matter who it is. Music, culture, food, water. Your showers will become shorter. You're going to get a sense of what globalization looks like."
"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike."
"To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries."
