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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 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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They say that if the Swiss had designed these mountains they'd be rather flatter.
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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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The appeal of travel books is also the sense that you are different, an outsider, almost like the Robinson Crusoe or Christopher…
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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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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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No one is so brave that he is not disturbed by something unexpected.
— Julius Caesar
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Other people think exactly the opposite: they surrender themselves without a second thought, hoping to find in passion the solutions to all…
— Paulo Coelho
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The experiment left no doubt that, as far as accuracy of measurement went, the resistance disappeared. At the same time, however, something…
— Heike Kamerlingh Onnes
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As soon as we think we are safe, something unexpected happens.
— Gautama Buddha
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In any case, whenever technical progress opened a new window into the surrounding world, I felt the urge to look through this…
— Bruno Rossi
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Now and then in travel, something unexpected happens that transforms the whole nature of the trip and stays with the traveler.
— Paul Theroux
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I've read over 200 self improvement books. I know what to do to change my life around, but I have the fear…
— Tatsuhiko Takimoto
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You travel with the hope that something unexpected will happen. It has to do with enjoying being lost and figuring it out…
— Andrew Bird
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