Travel, for me, is a little bit like being in love because suddenly, all your senses are at the setting marked 'on.' Suddenly, you're alert to the secret patterns of the world.

Pico Iyer
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  4. ... a man sitting still is alone, often, with the memory of all he doesn't have. And what he does have can look very much like nothing.

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