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Hugh Honour

By leonid.plotkin | Published July 2, 2011

Such moments come to you in remote places. It’s as if the curtain that separates us from a broader vision is briefly lifted. We’re tied to a sequential time sequence, it’s the only way evolution can work—otherwise everything happens at once. But every now and then the process falters and we look through a chink [...]

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Neal Ascherson

By leonid.plotkin | Published July 2, 2011

To be unfindable and untraceable—that is an English dream! It is an idea of liberty which allows the individual to be ‘present’ only when he or she chooses, but to retain the right and capacity to melt away.

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Bruce Chatwin

By leonid.plotkin | Published July 2, 2011

Everyone needs a quest as an excuse for living.

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E. Heine

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

There are three critical states of human life: illness, captivity and travel.

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E. Heine

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Hide your gold, your faith and the reason of you journey.

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Mark Twain

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

In Paris they simply stared when I spoke to them in French; I never did succeed in making those idiots understand their own language.

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Yogi Berra

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

You got to be careful if you don’t know where you’re going, because you might not get there

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Peter Hoeg

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Traveling tends to magnify all human emotions.

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Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

A man of ordinary talent will always be ordinary, whether he travels or not; but a man of superior talent (which I cannot deny myself to be without being impious) will go to pieces if he remains forever in the same place.

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Moslih Saadi

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

A traveler without observation is a bird without wings.

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Italian Proverb

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Long voyages, great lies.

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Milton Glaser

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way.

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Henry David Thoreau

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Not until we are lost do we begin to understand ourselves.

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Carson McCullers

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

We are torn between a nostalgia for the familiar and an urge for the foreign and strange. As often as not, we are homesick most for the places we have never known.

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Douglas Adams

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I intended to be.

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Natalie Goldberg

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Anything we fully do is an alone journey.

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Anonymous

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Don’t listen to what they say. Go see.

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Gertrude Stein

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

When you get there, there isn’t any there there.

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Anonymous

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Who lives sees much. Who travels sees more.

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Gail Bereny

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Keep things on your trip in perspective, and you’ll be amazed at the perspective you gain on things back home while you’re away…One’s little world is put into perspective by the bigger world out there.

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Brahman

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

There is no happiness for the person who does not travel. For Indra is the friend of the traveler, therefore wander!

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Lord Byron

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

I am so convinced of the advantages of looking at mankind instead of reading about them, and of the bitter effects of staying at home with all the narrow prejudices of an Islander, that I think there should be a law amongst us to set our young men abroad for a term among the few [...]

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Scott Cameron

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Travel makes one modest. You see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.

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Kevin Charbonneau

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Embrace the detours.

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Colette

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The earth belongs to anyone who stops for a moment, gazes and goes on his way.

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Colette

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The true traveler is he who goes on foot, and even then, he sits down a lot of the time.

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Mason Cooley

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

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Thomas Fuller

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

If an ass goes traveling, he’ll not come home a horse.

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Andre Gide

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

One doesn’t discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time.

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Graham Greene

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

He gave the impression that very many cities had rubbed him smooth.

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Ernesto Che Guevara

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

We travel just to travel.

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Sydney Harris

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Happiness is a direction, not a place.

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Horace

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Drop the question what tomorrow may bring, and count as profit every day that Fate allows you.

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Nils Kjaer

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

He who strays discovers new paths.

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James Lowell

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The wise man travels to discover himself.

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Ferdinand Magellan

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The sea is dangerous and its storms terrible, but these obstacles have never been sufficient reason to remain ashore … unlike the mediocre, intrepid spirits seek victory over those things that seem impossible … it is with an iron will that they embark on the most daring of all endeavors … to meet the shadowy [...]

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Vladimir Nabokov

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

That life-quickening atmosphere of a big railway station where everything is something trembling on the brink of something else.

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Anais Nin

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Throw your dreams into space like a kite, and you do not know what it will bring back, a new life, a new friend, a new love, a new country.

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Muriel Rukeyser

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The Journey is my home.

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Henry David Thoreau

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

A traveler is to be reverenced as such. His profession is the best symbol of our life. Going from – toward; it is the history of every one of us.

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Amelia Barr

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The great difference between voyages rests not with the ships, but with the people you meet on them.

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Antonio Machado

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Travelers, there is no path, paths are made by walking.

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William Shakespeare — Twelfth Night

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Journeys end in lovers meeting, Every wise man’s son doth know.

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Henry David Thoreau

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

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Anonymous

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Some roads aren’t meant to be traveled alone.

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Rosalia de Castro

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

I see my path, but I don’t know where it leads. Not knowing where I’m going is what inspires me to travel it.

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Chinese Proverb

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Only he that has traveled the road knows where the holes are deep.

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George Moore

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

A man travels the world in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

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Theophile Gautier

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

I was born to travel and write verse.

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Ella Maillart

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

You do not travel if you are afraid of the unknown, you travel for the unknown, that reveals you with yourself.

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Marc Newson

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

If somebody asked me about my inspiration I would say that it’s not the people and it’s not the things, it’s travel and experiencing different environments.

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Ella Maillart

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world’s end.

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Ryszard Kapuscinski

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

My writing is a combination of three elements. The first is travel: not travel like a tourist, but travel as exploration. The second is reading literature on the subject. The third is reflection.

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Ella Maillart

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of.

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Danny Kaye

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

To travel is to take a journey into yourself.

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Ella Maillart

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

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John Berryman

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

We must travel in the direction of our fear.

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Jerzy Kosinski

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

I can create countries just as I can create the actions of my characters. That is why a lot of travel seems to me a waste of time.

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Laurence Sterne

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

An English man does not travel to see English men.

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James Allen

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

You cannot travel within and stand still without.

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George Byron

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

What should I have known or written had I been a quiet, mercantile politician or a lord in waiting? A man must travel, and turmoil, or there is no existence.

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Jose Saramago

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

I am traveling less in order to be able to write more. I select my travel destinations according to their degree of usefulness to my work.

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Lawrence Durrell

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

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William Hazlitt

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

It is not fit that every man should travel; it makes a wise man better, and a fool worse.

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Xun Zi

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The person attempting to travel two roads at once will get nowhere.

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Ramakrishna

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here.

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John Burroughs

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Travel and society polish one, but a rolling stone gathers no moss, and a little moss is a good thing on a man.

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Catherine Deneuve

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

I love to not work. I like to travel. I work maybe half the year, no more.

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Susan Sontag

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

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Lord Chesterfield

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The world is a country which nobody ever yet knew by description; one must travel through it one’s self to be acquainted with it.

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Benjamin Desraeli

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Travel teaches toleration.

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Seneca

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Everywhere is nowhere. When a person spends all his time in foreign travel, he ends by having many acquaintances, but no friends.

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John Muir

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

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Soren Kierkegaard

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.

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William Blake

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The man who never in his mind and thoughts travel’d to heaven is no artist.

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Anais Nin

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls.

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Ernest Hemingway

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Writing and travel broaden your ass if not your mind and I like to write standing up.

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William Shakespeare — As You LIke It

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

I had rather have a fool to make me merry than experience to make me sad and to travel for it too!

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Regina Nadelson

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

Most travel is best of all in the anticipation or the remembering; the reality has more to do with losing your luggage.

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Charles Cooley

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

To get away from one’s working environment is, in a sense, to get away from one’s self; and this is often the chief advantage of travel and change.

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William Moon — Blue Highways

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

What you’ve done becomes the judge of what you’re going to do – especially in other people’s minds. When you’re traveling, you are what you are right there and then. People don’t have your past to hold against you. No yesterdays on the road.

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Daniel Boorstin

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 29, 2011

The traveler was active; he went strenuously in search of people, of adventure, of experience. The tourist is passive; he expects interesting things to happen to him. He goes “sight-seeing.”

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Arthur Rimbaud

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

What am I doing here?

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Alfred Korzybski

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

The map is not the territory.

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Tom Waits

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

It’s a battered old suitcase and a hotel someplace and a wound that will never heal.

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Robert Louis Stevenson

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

We are all travelers in the wilderness of this world, and the best we can find in our travels is an honest friend.

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Herman Melville

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

It is not down in any map; true places never are.

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Anonymous T’ang Dynasty Poem

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

The autumn leaves are falling like rain. Although my neighbors are all barbarians And you, you are a thousand miles away There are always two cups at my table.

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Rumi

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

When you are everywhere, you are nowhere / When you are somewhere, you are everywhere.

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G.K. Chesterton

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

The traveler sees what he sees, the tourist sees what he has come to see.

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Sam Keene

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

To be on a quest is nothing more or less than to become an asker of questions.

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John Muir

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

Only by going alone in silence, without baggage, can one truly get into the heart of the wilderness. All other travel is mere dust and hotels and baggage and chatter.

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Paul Fussell

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

Travel at its truest is thus an ironic experience, and the best travelers… seem to be those able to hold two or three inconsistent ideas in their minds at the same time, or able to regard themselves as at once serious persons and clowns.

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Sinclair Lewis

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

He who has seen one cathedral ten times has seen something; he who has seen ten cathedrals once has seen but little; and he who has spent half an hour in each of a hundred cathedrals has seen nothing at all.

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Italo Calvino

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

Arriving at each new city, the traveler finds again a past of his that he did now know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

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Frank Herbert

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

Without new experiences, something inside of us sleeps. The sleeper must awaken.

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Edward Dahlberg

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

When one realizes that his life is worthless he either commits suicide or travels.

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Charles Dickens

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

One always begins to forgive a place as soon as it’s left behind.

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Albert Einstein

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

I love to travel, but hate to arrive.

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Carl Burns

By leonid.plotkin | Published June 26, 2011

A child on a farm sees a plane fly overhead and dreams of a faraway place. A traveler on the plane sees the farmhouse… and thinks of home.

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