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“Politicians and diapers should be changed frequently, and for the same reason.”
― Eça de Queirós

“Consulting maps can diminish the wanderlust that they awaken,as the act of looking at them can replace the act of travel. But looking at maps is much more than an act of aesthetic replacement. Anyone who opens an atlas wants everything at once, without limits--the whole world. This longing will always be great, far greater than any satisfaction to be had by attaining what is desired. Give me an atlas over a guidebook any day. There is no more poetic book in the world.”
― Judith Schalansky, Atlas of Remote Islands: Fifty Islands I Have Never Set Foot On and Never Will