#voyage

They all dreamt of each other that night, as was natural, considering how thin the partitions were between them, and how strangely they had been lifted off the earth to sit next each other in mid-ocean, and see every detail of each others' faces, and hear whatever they chanced to say. ↗

— Virginia Woolf

#novel #the-voyage-out #virginia-woolf #woolf #nature

The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things can not be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime. ↗

— Mark Twain

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It is not the going out of port, but the coming in, that determines the success of a voyage. ↗

— Henry Ward Beecher

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After a prosperous, but to me very wearisome, voyage, we came at last into port. Immediately on landing I got together my few effects; and, squeezing myself through the crowd, went into the nearest and humblest inn which first met my gaze. ↗

— Adelbert von Chamisso

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What was most significant about the lunar voyage was not that men set foot on the moon but that they set eye on the earth. ↗

— Norman Cousins

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My Olympic voyage has continued because it is so rewarding. ↗

— Bill Toomey

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The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart. ↗

— Julien Green

#descends #earth #explorer #greatest #heart

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but then they return with their richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer. ↗

— William Gurnall

#faithful #last #longer #lost #never

I am about to take my last voyage, a great leap in the dark. ↗

— Thomas Hobbes

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