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“When one is traveling, everything looks brighter and lovelier. That does not mean it IS brighter and lovelier; it just means that sweet, kindly home suffers in comparison to tarted-up foreign places with all their jewels on.”
― The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
― The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making
“Once the travel bug bites there is no known antidote, and I know that I shall be happily infected until the end of my life”
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“Journeys are the midwives of thought. Few places are more conducive to internal conversations than moving planes, ships or trains.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
“Now more than ever do I realize that I will never be content with a sedentary life, that I will always be haunted by thoughts of a sun-drenched elsewhere.”
― The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
― The Nomad: Diaries of Isabelle Eberhardt
“She sat still, trying to hush her secret heart.”
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