I am sure that instinctively we wish to be everything, to possess it-why cut the rose or marry the man, otherwise?
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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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I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.
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There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men.
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One travels to escape from it all, but that is the great illusion: It cannot be done, since one travels with one's mind.
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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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