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“Each friend represents a world in us, a world possibly not born until they arrive, and it is only by this meeting that a new world is born.”
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
― The Diary of Anaïs Nin, Vol. 1: 1931-1934
“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected."
(Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)”
― Works of Charles Dickens
(Frauds on the Fairies, 1853)”
― Works of Charles Dickens
“The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes.”
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“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.”
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
― The Innocents Abroad / Roughing It
“I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move.”
― Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
― Travels with a Donkey in the Cévennes
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