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One can only really travel if one lets oneself go and takes what every place brings without trying to turn it into a healthy private pattern of one's own and I suppose that is the difference between travel and tourism.

— Freya Stark

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There can be no happiness if the things we believe in are different from the things we do.

The Journey's Echo (1963)

To awaken quite alone in a strange town, is one of the pleasantest sensations in the world.

The great and almost only comfort about being a woman is that one can always pretend to be more stupid than one is and no one is surprised.

The Valleys of the Assassins and Other Persian Travels (1934)

Christmas … is not an external event at all, but a piece of one's home that one carries in one's heart.

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