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That is really one of thousands of great things about traveling: the surprises. Good, bad… arriving someplace—a dot on the map—and having experiences you never thought were possible.
“That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.”
― How to Be Good
― How to Be Good
“To say goodbye is to die a little.”
― The Long Goodbye
― The Long Goodbye
“I don't care a damn about men who are loyal to the people who pay them, to organizations...I don't think even my country means all that much. There are many countries in our blood, aren't there, but only one person. Would the world be in the mess it is if we were loyal to love and not to countries?”
― Our Man in Havana
― Our Man in Havana
“Let no one who loves be called altogether unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.”
― The Little Minister
― The Little Minister
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