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I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me.


Alice Steinbach


#travel #independence

We choose to go to the moon in this decade and do the other things. Not because they are easy, but because they are hard.


John F. Kennedy


#challenge #moon #space-travel #trial #challenge

And so seated next to my father in the train compartment, I suddenly asked, "Father, what is sexsin?" He turned to look at me, as he always did when answering a question, but to my surprise he said nothing. At last he stood up, lifted his traveling case off the floor and set it on the floor. Will you carry it off the train, Corrie?" he said. I stood up and tugged at it. It was crammed with the watches and spare parts he had purchased that morning. It's too heavy," I said. Yes," he said, "and it would be a pretty poor father who would ask his little girl to carry such a load. It's the same way, Corrie, with knowledge. Some knowledge is too heavy for children. When you are older and stronger, you can bear it. For now you must trust me to carry it for you.


Corrie Ten Boom


#father #knowledge #travel

We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.


John Lubbock


#reading #travel #library

The measure of civilized behavior is compassion.


Paul Theroux


#humanity #travel #africa

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre.


Olivier Weber


#africa #colonialism #french-writer #literature #report

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding.


Lao Tzu


#travel #wisdom #speech

The Wanderlust has got me... by the belly-aching fire


Robert W. Service


#traveling #wanderlust #service

Any country where I am not bored is a country that teaches me nothing.


Albert Camus


#camus #travel #boredom

Don't be amazed if you see my eyes always wandering. In fact, this is my way of reading, and it is only in this way that reading proves fruitful to me. If a book truly interests me, I cannot follow it for more than a few lines before my mind, having seized on a thought that the text suggests to it, or a feeling, or a question, or an image, goes off on a tangent and springs from thought to thought, from image to image, in an itinerary of reasonings and fantasies that I feel the need to pursue to the end, moving away from the book until I have lost sight of it. The stimulus of reading is indispensable to me, and of meaty reading, even if, of every book, I manage to read no more than a few pages. But those few pages already enclose for me whole universes, which I can never exhaust.


Italo Calvino


#calvino #if #italo #night #on






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