I did not want to be depressed by the gap existing between my weakness and my ambition.

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We want to feel that this earth is all ours, like our parents' house when we were children.

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I had to live in the desert before I could understand the full value of grass in a green ditch.

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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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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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From the beginning, I wanted to live my own life, and patiently I shored up that desire against wind and tide.

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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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Humanity is made up of an infinity of different individuals. Each of us travels for motives exclusively his own.

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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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The true traveller is the one urged to move about for physical, aesthetic, intellectual as well as spiritual reasons.

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