"So it is that Lonely Places attract as……" — Pico Iyer
"So it is that Lonely Places attract as many lonely people as they produce, and the loneliness we see in them is partly in ourselves."
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100 Quotes by Pico Iyer
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Travel is not really about leaving our homes, but leaving our habits.
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We travel, in essence, to become young fools again - to slow time down and get taken in, and fall…
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In our appetite for gossip, we tend to gobble down everything before us, only to find, too late, that it…
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Silence is something more than just a pause; it is that enchanted place where space is cleared and time is…
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My Christmas present to myself each year is to see how much air travel can open up the world and…
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Serendipity was my tour guide, assisted by caprice
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Perhaps the greatest danger of our global community is that the person in LA thinks he knows Cambodia because he's…
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Finding a sanctuary, a place apart from time, is not so different from finding a faith.
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None of the things in life - like love or faith - was arrived at by thinking; indeed, one could…
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Lonely Places, then are the places that are not on international wavelengths, do not know how to carry themselves, are…
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Death undoes us less, sometimes, than the hope that it will never come.
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One curiosity of being a foreigner everywhere is that one finds oneself discerning Edens where the locals see only Purgatory.
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