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“She is incredibly faithful, just not to the same man”
― Caroline de Maigret, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

“Why do we feel sorry for people who can't travel? Because, unable to expand externally, they are not able to expand internally either, they can't multiply and so they are deprived of the possibility of undertaking expansive excursions in themselves and discovering who and what else they could have become.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

“Take the time to take time because nobody else will do it for you.”
― Anne Berest, How to Be Parisian Wherever You Are: Love, Style, and Bad Habits

“In the beginning I was so young and such a stranger to myself I hardly existed. I had to go out into the world and see it and hear it and react to it, before I knew at all who I was, what I was, what I wanted to be.”
― Mary Oliver, Upstream: Selected Essays