When I started travelling, I was 18 I was instinctively obeying a strong urge. Today I can analyse that urge and see where it has led me.
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The wideness of the horizon has to be inside us, cannot be anywhere but inside us, otherwise what we speak about is geographic distances.
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When the heart speaks, its language is the same under all latitudes.
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Certain travellers give the impression that they keep moving because only then do they feel fully alive.
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