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    Vincent van Gogh
    “The heart of man is very much like the sea, it has its storms, it has its tides and in its depths it has its pearls too”
    ― Vincent van Gogh, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
    tags: heart, love, man, sea, soul, storms
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: bilbo, journey, lost, quest, travel, wander
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    Anna Quindlen
    “Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, journey, reading, travel
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    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
    tags: adventure, change, discworld, growth, travel
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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    ― Marcel Proust
    tags: discovery, travel
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    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
    tags: inspirational, journey, quest, seekers, travel
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    David Mitchell
    “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: inspirational, travel
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    Hans Christian Andersen
    “To move, to breathe, to fly, to float,
    To gain all while you give,
    To roam the roads of lands remote,
    To travel is to live.”
    ― Hans Christian Andersen, The Fairy Tale of My Life: An Autobiography
    tags: experience, life, travel
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “We wanderers, ever seeking the lonelier way, begin no day where we have ended another day; and no sunrise finds us where sunset left us. Even while the earth sleeps we travel. We are the seeds of the tenacious plant, and it is in our ripeness and our fullness of heart that we are given to the wind and are scattered.”
    ― Kahlil Gibran, The Prophet
    tags: poetry, travel
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  • #11
    “If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.”
    ― James A. Michener
    tags: humor, missed-opportunities, open-mindedness, travel
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    John Lubbock
    “We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.”
    ― John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life
    tags: library, reading, travel
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    Ray Bradbury
    “See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories. Ask for no guarantees, ask for no security.”
    ― Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451
    tags: tourism, travel
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Words do not express thoughts very well. They always become a little different immediately after they are expressed, a little distorted, a little foolish.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
    tags: writing
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Without words, without writing and without books there would be no history, there could be no concept of humanity.”
    ― Hermann Hesse
    tags: books
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    Hermann Hesse
    “We are sun and moon, dear friend; we are sea and land. It is not our purpose to become each other; it is to recognize each other, to learn to see the other and honor him for what he is: each the other's opposite and complement.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Narcissus and Goldmund
    tags: individuality, respect, uniqueness
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    Hermann Hesse
    “It may be important to great thinkers to examine the world, to explain and despise it. But I think it is only important to love the world, not to despise it, not for us to hate each other, but to be able to regard the world and ourselves and all beings with love, admiration and respect.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
    tags: admiration, love, philosophy, respect, world
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    Hermann Hesse
    “Writing is good, thinking is better. Cleverness is good, patience is better.”
    ― Hermann Hesse, Siddhartha
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    Patrick Rothfuss
    “No man is brave that has never walked a hundred miles. If you want to know the truth of who you are, walk until not a person knows your name. Travel is the great leveler, the great teacher, bitter as medicine, crueler than mirror-glass. A long stretch of road will teach you more about yourself than a hundred years of quiet.”
    ― Patrick Rothfuss
    tags: inspirational, travel
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    Jawaharlal Nehru
    “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open.”
    ― Jawaharlal Nehru
    tags: travel
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    Christopher McCandless
    “Happiness only real when shared.”
    ― Christopher McCandless
    tags: happiness, intothewild, supertramp
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    Christopher McCandless
    “The very basic core of a man's living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.”
    ― Christopher McCandless
    tags: adventure, horizons, inspiration, life, motivation, travel
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    Christopher McCandless
    “The life and simple beauty of it is too good to pass up”
    ― Christopher McCandless
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    Christopher McCandless
    “Ultimate freedom. An extremist. An aesthetic voyager whose home is the road.”
    ― Christopher McCandless
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    Christopher McCandless
    “I don't want to know what time it is. I don't want to know what day it is or where I am. None of that matters.”
    ― Christopher McCandless
    tags: absurdity
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    John Muir
    “The clearest way into the Universe is through a forest wilderness.”
    ― John Muir
    tags: animals, caring, earth, forests, nature, plants, trees, wilderness
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    Vincent van Gogh
    “...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?”
    ― Vincent Willem van Gogh
    tags: art, nature, poetry, suicide
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    Gary Snyder
    “Nature is not a place to visit. It is home.”
    ― Gary Snyder
    tags: conservation, home, nature
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    Kahlil Gibran
    “And forget not that the earth delights to feel your bare feet and the winds long to play with your hair”
    ― Khalil Gibran, The Prophet
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    Sylvia Plath
    “I felt my lungs inflate with the onrush of scenery—air, mountains, trees, people. I thought, "This is what it is to be happy.”
    ― Sylvia Plath, The Bell Jar
    tags: ecstasy, happiness, nature
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