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Laraine

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“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.”
― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

tags: travel

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“A dominant impulse on encountering beauty is to wish to hold on to it, to possess it and give it weight in one’s life. There is an urge to say, ‘I was here, I saw this and it mattered to me.”
― Alain de Botton, The Art of Travel

tags: beauty, travel

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“April. Spring was on the land like an itch. The whole countryside seemed to be scratching itself awake—lazily, luxuriously, though occasionally scratching so hard its nails hit bone, that old cold calcium that lies beneath our tingles.”
― Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito

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“Hard times and funky living can season the soul, true enough, but joy is the yeast that makes it rise.”
― Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito

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“Simultaneously a frantic, high-tech juggernaut and a timeless Asian dream, Bangkok straddles like no other metropolis the boundary between acrid and sweet, soft and hard, sacred and profane. It’s a silk buzz saw, a lacquered jackhammer, a steel-belted seduction, a digital prayer.”
― Tom Robbins, Villa Incognito

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