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“What is that feeling when you're driving away from people and they recede on the plain till you see their specks dispersing? - it's the too-huge world vaulting us, and it's good-bye. But we lean fo...”
“I wandered everywhere, through cities and countries wide. And everywhere I went, the world was on my side.”
“Travel does not exist without home....If we never return to the place we started, we would just be wandering, lost. Home is a reflecting surface, a place to measure our growth and enrich us after b...”
“Yet all experience is an arch wherethroughGleams that untraveled world whose margin fadesForever and forever when I move.How dull it is to pause, to make an end,To rust unburnished, not to shine in...”
“Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not experienced before. How can there be any adventure, any exploration, if you let somebody else - ...”
“Set out from any point. They are all alike. They all lead to a point of departure.”
“I knew then that I wanted to go home, but I had no home to go to--and that is what adventures are all about.”
“The journey is the destination.”
“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they t...”
“[A]dventures befall the unadventurous as readily, if not as frequently, as the bold. Adventures are a logical and reliable result - and have been since at least the time of Odysseus - of the fatal ...”
“Rocinante was of more value for a true traveller than a jet plane. Jet planes were for business men.”
“If travel has momentum and wants to stay in motion, as I mentioned earlier, then adventure has the gravitational pull of a black hole. The more you do it, the more you find a way to keep doing it.”
“Honestly, if I stay on this gruelling path, I'm going to end up as another suicide statistic.”
“In the empty immensity of earth, sky, and water, there she was, incomprehensible, firing into a continent.”
“In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm.”
“I wanted to write an adventure story, not, it's true, I really did. I shall have failed, that's all. Adventures bore me. I have no idea how to talk about countries, how to make people wish they had...”
“Horizons, cheap whisky straight from the bottleand your hands in mine.”
“If we were meant to stay in one place, we would have roots instead of feet.”
“What constitutes the pleasure of the traveler is the obstacle, the fatigue, the peril itself. What pleasure can there be in an excursion where one is always sure of arriving, finding ready horses, ...”
“Go somewhere you know nothing about and see what happens.”
