#travel

"I am awfully greedy; I want everything from life. I want to be a woman and to be a man, to have many friends and to have loneliness, to work much and write good books, to travel and enjoy myself, to be selfish and to be unselfish… You see, it is difficult to get all which I want. And then when I do not succeed I get mad with anger."

"Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime."

"I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel's sake. The great affair is to move."

"People do not die for us immediately, but remain bathed in a sort of aura oflife which bears no relation to true immortality but through which theycontinue to occupy our thoughts in the same way as when they were alive. Itis as though they were traveling abroad."

"So I find words I never thought to speakIn streets I never thought I should revisitWhen I left my body on a distant shore."

"There are several ways to react to being lost. One is to panic: this was usually Valentina's first impulse. Another is to abandon yourself to lostness, to allow the fact that you've misplaced yourself to change the way you experience the world."

"Travel far enough, you meet yourself."

"To be invisible, paint yourself with the direct shade of zero. Leave nothing to chance, by taking nothing with you wherever you go."

"I know a girl from whose body sunbeams rose to the clouds as if they’d fallen from the sun.Her laugh was like a bangle of bells. “Your hair is wet,” I told her one day, “Did you take a bath?” “It is dew!” she laughed, “I’ve been lying in the grass. All morning long, I lay here waiting for the dawn."

"I was an adventurer, but she was not an adventuress. She was a 'wanderess.' Thus, she didn’t care about money, only experiences - whether they came from wealth or from poverty, it was all the same to her."

"I may be going nowhere, but what a ride."

"Make voyages. Attempt them. There's nothing else."

"Augustus,"I said. "Really. You don't have to do this.""Sure I do,"he said. "I found my Wish.""God, you're the best,"I told him."I bet you say that to all the boys who finance your international travel,"he answered."

"I have found out that there ain't no surer way to find out whether you like people or hate them than to travel with them."

"Our battered suitcases were piled on the sidewalk again; we had longer ways to go. But no matter, the road is life"

"The world is a book and those who do not travel read only one page."

"...there ain't no journey what don't change you some."

"A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving."

"Caelum non animum mutant qui trans mare currunt.(They change their sky, not their soul, who rush across the sea.)"

"We travel, some of us forever, to seek other states, other lives, other souls."