No sooner had I left to cruise the Mediterranean than the following question preoccupied me How far does one kill a journey by making it become real
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We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.Ella Maillart
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.
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We must develop a deeper interest and greater understanding of the people we meet here or abroad. Like us, they are passengers on board that mysterious ship called life.
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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.
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It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
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