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  • #1
    Anita Desai
    “Wherever you go becomes a part of you somehow.”
    Anita Desai

  • #2
    Marcel Proust
    “The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
    Marcel Proust

  • #3
    Anthony Bourdain
    “Travel changes you. As you move through this life and this world you change things slightly, you leave marks behind, however small. And in return, life—and travel—leaves marks on you.”
    Anthony Bourdain

  • #4
    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

  • #5
    David  Mitchell
    “Travel far enough, you meet yourself.”
    David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

  • #6
    John Steinbeck
    “I was born lost and take no pleasure in being found.”
    John Steinbeck, Travels with Charley: In Search of America

  • #7
    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

  • #8
    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

  • #9
    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us, or we find it not.”
    Ralph Waldo Emerson, Emerson's Essays

  • #10
    Gustave Flaubert
    “Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.”
    Gustave Flaubert

  • #11
    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

  • #12
    Charles Dickens
    “Every traveler has a home of his own, and he learns to appreciate it the more from his wandering.”
    Charles Dickens

  • #13
    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

  • #14
    Roman Payne
    “I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
    Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy

  • #15
    Pat Conroy
    “Once you have traveled, the voyage never ends, but is played out over and over again in the quietest chambers. The mind can never break off from the journey.”
    Pat Conroy

  • #16
    Gayle Forman
    “Travelling's not something you're good at. It's something you do. Like breathing. You can't work too much at it, or it feels like work. You have to surrender yourself to the chaos. To the accidents.”
    Gayle Forman , Just One Day

  • #17
    Aldous Huxley
    “To travel is to discover that everyone is wrong about other countries.”
    Huxley Aldous

  • #18
    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

  • #19
    Jhumpa Lahiri
    “You are still young, free.. Do yourself a favor. Before it's too late, without thinking too much about it first, pack a pillow and a blanket and see as much of the world as you can. You will not regret it. One day it will be too late.”
    Jhumpa Lahiri, The Namesake



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