The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
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The life you have led doesn't need to be the only life you have.
It is not down in any map; true places never are.
Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you.
One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they fall into an animal stupor that gapes at existence and they think they have seen something.
One's destination is never a place but rather a new way of looking at things.
When I was very young and the urge to be someplace else was on me, I was assured by mature people that maturity would cure this itch. When years described me as mature, the remedy prescribed was middle age. In middle age I was assured that greater age would calm my fever and now that I am fifty-eight perhaps senility will do the job. Nothing has worked. I fear the disease is incurable.
Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen.
One doesn't discover new lands without consenting to lose sight, for a very long time, of the shore.
The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality.
Stuff your eyes with wonder, live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.
I travelled among unknown men,_x000D_ _x000D_ In lands beyond the sea;_x000D_ _x000D_ Nor England! did I know till then_x000D_ _x000D_ What love I bore to thee.
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