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Traveling
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Every place is a goldmine. You have only to give yourself time, sit in a teahouse watching the passers-by, stand in a corner of the market, go for a haircut. You pick up a thread – a word, a meeting, a friend of a friend of someone you have just met – and soon the most insipid, most insignificant place becomes a mirror of the world, a window on life, a theatre of humanity.
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― A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
― A Fortune-Teller Told Me: Earthbound Travels in the Far East
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Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.
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― Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
― Detour de France: An Englishman in Search of a Continental Education
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