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“Travel is no more than a relatively healthy form of narcotic, after all.”
― Andrzej Stasiuk, On The Road To Babadag: Travels in the Other Europe

“Science is magic that works.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Cat’s Cradle

“Każdy strach ma kilka pięter, jak pan wie. Jeden strach ze snu pana zerwie, a inny pana uśpi.”
― Wiesław Myśliwski, Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli

“Przecież człowiek sam dla siebie jest najbardziej dokuczliwym przymusem.”
― Wiesław Myśliwski, Traktat o łuskaniu fasoli

“A journey, after all, neither begins in the instant we set out, nor ends when we have reached our door step once again. It starts much earlier and is really never over, because the film of memory continues running on inside of us long after we have come to a physical standstill. Indeed, there exists something like a contagion of travel, and the disease is essentially incurable.”
― Ryszard Kapuściński, Travels with Herodotus