“I finally felt myself lifted definitively away on the winds of adventure toward worlds I envisaged would be stranger than they were, into situations I imagined would be much more normal than they turned out to be.”
― The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
― The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
“We must come to the inevitable conclusion that the guerrilla fighter is a social reformer, that he takes up arms responding to the angry protest of the people against their oppressors, and that he fights in order to change the social system that keeps all his unarmed brothers in ignominy and misery.”
― Guerrilla Warfare
― Guerrilla Warfare
“At night, after the exhausting games of canasta, we would look out over the immense sea, full of white-flecked and green reflections, the two of us leaning side by side on the railing, each of us far away, flying in his own aircraft to the stratospheric regions of our own dreams. There we understood that our vocation, our true vocation, was to move for eternity along the roads and seas of the world. Always curious, looking into everything that came before our eyes, sniffing out each corner but only ever faintly - not setting down roots in any land or staying long enough to see the substratum of things; the outer limits would suffice.”
― The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
― The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
“Many will call me an adventurer, and that I am...only one of a different sort: one who risks his skin to prove his truths.”
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“The first commandment for every good explorer is that an expedition has two points: the point of departure and the point of arrival. If your intention is to make the second theoretical point coincide with the actual point of arrival, don't think about the means -- because the journey is a virtual space that finishes when it finishes, and there are as many means as there are different ways of 'finishing.' That is to say, the means are endless.”
― The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
― The Motorcycle Diaries: Notes on a Latin American Journey
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