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Jianlan Zhu

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“A journey is a fragment of Hell.”
― Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines

tags: hell, journey

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“Sometimes, I overheard my aunts discussing these blighted destinies; and Aunt Ruth would hug me, as if to forestall my following in their footsteps. Yet, from the way she lingered over such words as 'Xanadu' or 'Samarkand' or the 'wine-dark sea,' I think she also felt the trouble of the 'wanderer in her soul.”
― Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines

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“Man's real home is not a house, but the Road, and that life itself is a journey to be walked on foot.”
― Bruce Chatwin, What Am I Doing Here?

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