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 refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.Ella Maillart
The sooner we learn to be jointly responsible, the easier the sailing will be.
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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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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.
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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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