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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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    Augustine of Hippo
    “The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page.”
    ― St. Augustine
    tags: allegory, books, broad-mindedness, classic, education, imagery, travel, world
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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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    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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    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    ― Anita Desai
    tags: travel
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    Robert Louis Stevenson
    “I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
    ― Robert Louis Stevenson, Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
    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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    Simone de Beauvoir
    “I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger.”
    ― Simone de Beauvoir
    tags: anger, books, friends, greedy, life, loneliness, man, myself, selfish, travel, woman, work, write
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    Isabelle Eberhardt
    “Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
    ― Isabelle Eberhardt, The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
    tags: sun-drenched, travel
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  • #10
    Jalal ad-Din Muhammad ar-Rumi
    “Travel brings power and love back into your life.”
    ― Rumi Jalalud-Din
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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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  • #12
    David Mitchell
    “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: inspirational, travel
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  • #13
    G.K. Chesterton
    “The traveler sees what he sees. The tourist sees what he has come to see.”
    ― G.K. Chesterton
    tags: travel
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  • #14
    I read; I travel; I become
    “I read; I travel; I become”
    ― Derek Walcott
    tags: read, travel
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  • #15
    Mark Twain
    “I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them.”
    ― Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer Abroad
    tags: humor, travel
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    J.R.R. Tolkien
    “All that is gold does not glitter,
    Not all those who wander are lost.”
    ― J.R.R. Tolkien, The Fellowship of the Ring
    tags: glitter, journey, shine, tolkien, travel, wander, wanderlust
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    Pascal Mercier
    “We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
    ― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon
    tags: home, identity, leaving, life, moving-on, past, travel
    1370 likes

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    Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    “I think you travel to search and you come back home to find yourself there.”
    ― Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
    tags: finding-yourself, searching, travel
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    Gustave Flaubert
    “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
    ― Gustave Flaubert
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    Anna Quindlen
    “In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own.”
    ― Anna Quindlen, How Reading Changed My Life
    tags: books, reading, travel
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  • #21
    Henry Miller
    “One's destination is never a place, but a new way of seeing things.”
    ― Henry Miller
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  • #22
    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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  • #23
    Neil Gaiman
    “Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.”
    ― Neil Gaiman, The Graveyard Book
    tags: travel, you
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  • #24
    Elizabeth Gilbert
    “to travel is worth any cost or sacrifice.”
    ― Elizabeth Gilbert, Eat, Pray, Love
    tags: travel
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  • #25
    David Mitchell
    “...there ain't no journey what don't change you some.”
    ― David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas
    tags: inspirational, journey, travel
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  • #26
    Marcus Tullius Cicero
    “A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
    ― Marcus Tullius Cicero
    tags: attributed-no-source, books, simile, soul
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  • #27
    I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.
    “I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library.”
    ― Jorge Luis Borges
    tags: books, library
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  • #28
    Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.
    “Never trust anyone who has not brought a book with them.”
    ― Lemony Snicket, Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
    tags: books, reading
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  • #29
    C.S. Lewis
    “You can never get a cup of tea large enough or a book long enough to suit me.”
    ― C.S. Lewis
    tags: books, inspirational, reading, tea
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  • #30
    If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use
    “If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.”
    ― Oscar Wilde
    tags: books, reading
    25538 likes



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