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“Home-keeping youth have ever homely wits.” William Shakespeare, “The Two Gentlemen of Verona” - 1623

“But when one is young one must see things, gather experience, ideas; enlarge the mind.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Fellowship of the Ring” - 1954

“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts.” Mark Twain, “The Innocents Abroad” - 1869

“Travelling is a fool's paradise. Our first journeys discover to us the indifference of places.” Ralph Waldo Emerson, “Self-Reliance” - 1841

“The tourist was the great conservative who hated novelty and adored dirt.” Henry Adams, “The Education of Henry Adams” - 1906

“I heard an airplane passing overhead. I wished I was on it.” Charles Bukowski, “Ham on Rye” - 1982

“A good traveler has no fixed plans and is not intent upon arriving.” Lao Tzu, “Tao Te Ching” - 4th century BC

“It seemed like all the way to tomorrow and over it to the days beyond.” J. R. R. Tolkien, “The Hobbit” - 1937

“Here to-day, up and off to somewhere else to-morrow! Travel, change, interest, excitement! The whole world before you, and a horizon that's always changing!” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“A careful inspection showed them that, even if they succeeded in righting it by themselves, the cart would travel no longer.” Kenneth Grahame, “The Wind in the Willows” - 1908

“This would mean that any time travel would be confined to the future. There would be no chance of Captain Kirk and the Starship Enterprise turning up at the present time.” Stephen Hawking, “A Brief History of Time” - 1988

“Through hyper-space, that unimaginable region that was neither space nor time, matter nor energy, something nor nothing, one could traverse the length of the Galaxy in the interval between two neighboring instants of time.” Isaac Asimov, “Foundation” - 1951

“People commonly travel around the world to see rivers and mountains, new stars, birds of rare plumage, queerly deformed fishes, ridiculous breeds of men—they abandon themselves to the bestial stupor which gapes at existence, and they think they...” Søren Kierkegaard, “Fear and Trembling” - 1843

“I have crossed seas, left cities behind me, followed the course of rivers or plunged into forests, always making my way towards other cities. I have had women, I have fought with men; and never was I able to turn back, any more than a record can...” Jean-Paul Sartre, “Nausea” - 1938

“Francois Rabelais. He was this poet. And his last words were 'I go to seek a Great Perhaps.' That's why I'm going. So I don't have to wait until I die to start seeking a Great Perhaps.” John Green, “Looking for Alaska” - 2005

“Stuff your eyes with wonder . . . live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories.” Ray Bradbury, “Fahrenheit 451” - 1953

“It’s like the people who believe they’ll be happy if they go and live somewhere else, but who learn it doesn’t work that way. Wherever you go, you take yourself with you.” Neil Gaiman, “The Graveyard Book” - 2008

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