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" Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive. "
Alive
Moving
Keep Moving
" Every time I took a long leave from home, I felt as if I were going to conquer the world. Or rather, take possession of what is my birthright, my inheritance. "
Home
World
Conquer
" From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide. "
Own
Beginning
Live
" Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own. "
Infinity
Own
Different
" I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it - why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise? "
Rose
Wish
Why
" I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. "
Relationships
Values
I Can
" I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition. "
Depressed
Ambition
Weakness
" I gained direct knowledge of the life of the poor in big towns: I have lived the narrowing mechanism of its conditioning and feared it. "
Life
Lived
Knowledge
" I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch. "
Full
Green
Desert
" I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences. "
Acts
Refuse
Rigid
" It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better. "
End
Better
Self
" I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad. "
Wanted
Go
Abroad
" 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. "
Self
Unknown
Travel
" One of the main points about travelling is to develop in us a feeling of solidarity, of that oneness without which no better world is possible. "
Better
Feeling
Possible
" One travels so as to learn once more how to marvel at life in the way a child does. And blessed be the poet, the artist who knows how to keep alive his sense of wonder. "
Wonder
Life
Child
" One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind. "
Illusion
Great
Escape
" One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. "
Away
Run
Travel
" Only when one is able to grasp wideness can one possess it. "
Only
Possess
Grasp
" Others are keen to see if natives other than us live better than we do, without heat in pipes, ice in boxes, sunshine in bulbs, music on disks, or images gliding over a pale screen. "
Better
Heat
Sunshine
" 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. "
End
Universe
Live
" That idea of escapism... these words could sum up my life. "
My Life
Life
Idea
" The benefits of the accomplished journey cannot be weighed in terms of perfect moments, but in terms of how this journey affects and changes our character. "
Moments
Perfect
Character
" There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. "
Which
Men
Only
" The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be. "
Learn
Responsible
Sailing
" The state of minds vary according to the angle under which one examines them. "
Minds
Vary
Which
" The timelessness of a concept has to be woven into the running warp of dying time, vertical power has to be wedded to the horizontal earth. "
Time
Dying
Earth
" The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons. "
Spiritual
Intellectual
Aesthetic
" The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. "
Work
Myself
Me
" The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances. "
Cannot
Us
Horizon
" Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them. "
Live
Activity
Appreciate
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