#trave

I read; I travel; I become ↗

— Derek Walcott

#travel #travel

Maybe you had to leave in order to really miss a place; maybe you had to travel to figure out how beloved your starting point was. ↗

— Jodi Picoult

#travel

Half the fun of the travel is the esthetic of lostness. ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#travel

there was another reason [she] took her books whenever they went away. they were her home when she was somewhere strange. they were familiar voices, friends that never quarreled with her, clever, powerful friends -- daring and knowledgeable, tried and tested adventurers who had traveled far and wide. her books cheered her up when she was sad and kept her from being bored ↗

— Cornelia Funke

#travel

Wherever you go, you take yourself with you. ↗

— Neil Gaiman

#you #travel

Travel brings wisdom only to the wise. It renders the ignorant more ignorant than ever. ↗

— Joe Abercrombie

#travel #wisdom #law

I suspected, however, that I wasn't homesick for anything I would find at home when I returned. The longing was for what I wouldn't find: the past and all the people and places there were lost to me. ↗

— Alice Steinbach

#travel #independence

While we are looking for the antidote or the medicine to cure us, that is, the 'new', which can only be found by plunging deep into the Unknown, we have to go on exploring sex, books, and travel, although we know that they lead us to the abyss, which, as it happens, is the only place where the antidote can be found. ↗

— Roberto Bolaño

#bolano #books #literature-and-illness #sex #travel

Les personnages de nos autres vies sont des fantômes que la littérature fait revivre. ↗

— Olivier Weber

#africa #colonialism #french-writer #literature #report

A good traveler leaves no tracks. Good speech lacks fault-finding. ↗

— Lao Tzu

#travel #wisdom #speech