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It is fatal to know too much at the outcome: boredom comes as quickly to the traveler who knows his route as…
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Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.
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The traveler's boast, sometimes couched as a complaint, is that of having been an eyewitness, and invariably this experience - shocking though…
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The monotony of staying in one place is the best thing for writing a novel. Having regular habits, a kind of security,…
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Going slowly [...] was the best way of being reminded that there is a relationship between Here and There, and that travel…
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They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
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The lust of the eye. The best photographs were, to me, like an experience of drowning.
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Reading alters the appearance of a book. Once it has been read, it never looks the same again, and people leave their…
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My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark…
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The deep root of failure in our lives is to think, 'Oh how useless and powerless I am.' It is essential to…
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"I have not made any arrogant, confident, boasting predictions at all. On the contrary, I have stuck hard to my "blood, toil,…
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Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting.
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Criticism is an indirect form of self-boasting.
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Science now finds itself in paradoxical strife with society: admired but mistrusted; offering hope for the future but creating ambiguous choice; richly…
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A man passes for that he is worth. What he is engraves itself on his face, on his form, on his fortunes,…
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