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Thunder & Sunshine
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by Alastair Humphreys (Goodreads Author)
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Mark Twain
“Now then, in the earth these people cannot stand much church -- an hour and a quarter is the limit, and they draw the line at once a week. That is to say, Sunday. One day in seven; and even then they do not look forward to it with longing. And so -- consider what their heaven provides for them: "church" that lasts forever, and a Sabbath that has no end! They quickly weary of this brief hebdomadal Sabbath here, yet they long for that eternal one; they dream of it, they talk about it, they think they think they are going to enjoy it -- with all their simple hearts they think they think they are going to be happy in it!”
Mark Twain, Letters from the Earth: Uncensored Writings

Kahlil Gibran
“If we were all to sit in a circle and confess our sins, we would laugh at each other for lack of originality. —Kahlil Gibran”
Kahlil Gibran

Milan Kundera
“We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come.”
Milan Kundera

“Ohne Musik wäre das Leben ein Irrtum.”
Fridrih Nitshe

Robert Byron
“Je comprends. Touriste".
Perfino il termine "voyageur" non ha più corso, e si capisce perché: ha una connotazione lusinghiera. Il viaggiatore di un tempo era la persona che andava in cerca della conoscenza, e a cui gli indigènes erano fieri di mostrare e raccontare le cosi interessanti del posto. In Europa questo atteggiamento di reciproco interesse è svanito da un pezzo. Ma almeno là il turista non è più un fenomeno. Fa parte del paesaggio e nove volte su dieci ha pochi denari da spendere, oltre a quelli versati per il suo viaggio organizzato. Da queste parti, il turista è ancora un'anomalia. [...] Siete semplicemente un turista, come un farabutto è un farabutto, una variante parassitica della specie umana, che esiste per essere munta, come una mucca da latte o un albero della gomma.”
Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana

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