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Sluggish and sedentary peoples, such as the Ancient Egyptians-- with their concept of an afterlife journey through the Field of Reeds-- project on to the next world the journeys they failed to make in this one.Bruce Chatwin
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A journey is a fragment of Hell.Bruce Chatwin
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If this were so; if the desert were 'home'; if our instincts were forged in the desert; to survive the rigours of the desert - then it is easier to understand why greener pastures pall on us; why possessions exhaust us, and why Pascal's imaginary man found his comfortable lodgings a prison.Bruce Chatwin
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Proust, more perspicaciously than any other writer, reminds us that the 'walks' of childhood form the raw material of our intelligence.Bruce Chatwin