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“And suddenly I realise that civilisation is suffering from a severe vitamin deficiency because it cannot draw its strength directly from nature, eternally young and eternally true. Humanity has lost itself in the unnatural and in speculation. Only now do I grasp the real meaning and the world-transforming element in the saying: “Become as the peasants, understand the sacredness of the earth.”
Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night

Wolfgang Schivelbusch
“Just imagine what will happen when the lines to Belgium and Germany are completed and connected up with their railways! I feel as if the mountains and forests of all countries were advancing on Paris. Even now, I can smell the German linden trees; the North Sea’s breakers are rolling against my door.”
Wolfgang Schivelbusch, The Railway Journey: The Industrialization of Time and Space in the 19th Century

Amor Towles
“Dismissed!” shouted Irina that night in their little apartment. “How does one get fired from Communism!”
Amor Towles, Table for Two

“But that's the glory of foreign travel, as far as I am concerned. I don't want to know what people are talking about. I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything. Suddenly you are five years old again. You can't read anything, you have only the most rudimentary sense of how things work, you can't even reliably cross a street without endangering your life. Your whole existence becomes a series of interesting guesses.”
Bill Bryson, Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe

“The best that can be said for Norwegian television is that it gives you the sensation of a coma without the worry and inconvenience.”
Bill Bryson, Neither Here Nor There: Travels in Europe

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