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“The pleasure of travel - existing as it largely does only in recollection and almost never in the present, at the actual moment when it is taking place-
Besides, he considered travel to be pointless, believing that the imagination could easily compensate for the vulgar reality of actual experience.”
― Joris-Karl Huysmans, Against Nature

“It is only by sacrificing everything to sensual pleasure that this being known as Man, cast into the world in spite of himself, may succeed in sowing a few roses on the thorns of life.”
― Marquis de Sade, Philosophy in the Boudoir

“A book lying idle on a shelf is wasted ammunition.”
― Henry Miller, The Books in My Life

“What will happen to the world when you leave it? Nothing, in any case, will remain of what is now visible.”
― Arthur Rimbaud, Illuminations