“This was how it was with travel: one city gives you gifts, another robs you. One gives you the heart’s affections, the other destroys your soul. Cities and countries are as alive, as feeling, as fickle and uncertain as people. Their degrees of love and devotion are as varying as with any human relation. Just as one is good, another is bad.”
― Cities & Countries
― Cities & Countries
“I am looking for the people who have always been there, and belong to the places they live. The others I do not wish to see.”
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“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”
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“To know a person in his home is not to know him at all: to meet him on a country road with only his baggage is to at last contact the core, the inner cell of his personality.”
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