Walter BenjaminHow many cities have revealed themselves to me in the marches I undertook in the pursuit of books!
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The ability to travel and experience new things is one of the benefits of growing older. There are books that you could only find in other places, cities that you can only see if you travel many miles away from home, and the world of knowledge that you cannot acquire without traveling to different parts of the world.
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