The study of maps and the perusal of travel books aroused in me a secret fascination that was at times almost irresistible.

Alain De Botton
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  4. There’s something about arriving in new cities, wandering empty streets with no destination. I will never lose the love for the arriving, but I'm born to leave. - Charlotte Eriksson

  5. A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving. - Lao Tzu

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  2. There is no such thing as work-life balance. Everything worth fighting for unbalances your life.

  3. There's a whole category of people who miss out by not allowing themselves to be weird enough.

  4. The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

  5. The price we have paid for expecting to be so much more than our ancestors is a perpetual anxiety that we are far from being all we might be.

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