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  • #1
    Roman Payne
    “She is free in her wildness, she is a wanderess, a drop of free water. She knows nothing of borders and cares nothing for rules or customs. 'Time' for her isn’t something to fight against. Her life flows clean, with passion, like fresh water.”
    Roman Payne

  • #2
    Richard Aldington
    “Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - above all, a travel bureau - arrange everything before-hand?”
    Richard Aldington, Death of a Hero

  • #3
    Patrick Ness
    “I was a hugely unchaperoned reader, and I would wander into my local public library and there sat the world, waiting for me to look at it, to find out about it, to discover who I might be inside it."

    [Patrick Ness slams library cuts (The Guardian, 23 June 2011)]”
    Patrick Ness

  • #4
    Dana Hewitt
    “So I start now to move on, not forgetting, but taking the memories with me in my heart and in ink. The leaf has fallen and it's time for a new one to grow before I let my lie live me to death.”
    Dana Hewitt, New City

  • #5
    Sam Keen
    “We come to love not by finding a perfect person, but by learning to see an imperfect person perfectly.”
    Sam Keen, To Love and Be Loved

  • #6
    Mark Twain
    “The more I learn about people, the more I like my dog.”
    Mark Twain

  • #7
    Euripides
    “Question everything. Learn something. Answer nothing.”
    Euripides

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “Why do you go away? So that you can come back. So that you can see the place you came from with new eyes and extra colors. And the people there see you differently, too. Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.”
    Terry Pratchett, A Hat Full of Sky

  • #9
    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring

  • #10
    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    St. Augustine

  • #11
    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #12
    Anaïs Nin
    “We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.”
    anaïs nin, The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 7: 1966-1974

  • #13
    Judith Thurman
    “Every dreamer knows that it is entirely possible to be homesick for a place you've never been to, perhaps more homesick than for familiar ground.”
    Judith Thurman



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