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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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“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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“London on your own actually seems more exotic than Egypt on a tour.”
― An Italian Affair
― An Italian Affair
“But the beauty is in the walking -- we are betrayed by destinations.”
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“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
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