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Ravi Singh

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“I am left with the magic, the name, the heart miraculously touched.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

tags: afghanistan, heartfelt, magic, moving, swiss, travel-writing, women-writers

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“Of all the names that linger in my memory after a long journey, this one is the dearest to me (Therapia). Perhaps because it sounds so Greek, blithe as a swelling paean to carefree days spent on lovely shores? Perhaps because it came at the beginning and now belongs to a long ago, glorified time-for the journey had just begun.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

tags: amazing-writing, exotic, past-and-present, swiss, travel-writing, traveller, travelling-to-a-foreign-country, women-writers

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“I saw it dissolve into a strangely clear horizon-there, a striated pyramid, stood the extinct volcano, a pain filled, deeply moving sight: permanence.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

tags: afghanistan, hindu, horizons, mountains, swiss, travel-writing, travelling, women-writers

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“What were the present and future to him, he who did not fear the sandstorm? Did he know what fortune and misfortune mean, and what our tortured hearts called hope?”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey

tags: afghanistan, deserts, hauntingly-beautiful, present-moment-living, sandstorm, swiss, travel-writing, women-writers

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“Letters have time, time costs nothing in these parts-let's return to the melons and peaches of Afghanistan.”
― Annemarie Schwarzenbach, All the Roads Are Open: The Afghan Journey