“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends.
You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
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You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”
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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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“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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“London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.”
― An Italian Affair
― An Italian Affair
“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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