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A man travels the world over in search of what he needs and returns home to find it.

— George Moore

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I will admit that an artist may be great and limited; by one word he may light up an abyss of soul; but there must be this one magical and unique word.

Confessions of a Young Man (1886)

The mind petrifies if a circle be drawn around it, and it can hardly be denied that dogma draws a circle round the mind.

Hail and Farewell (1912)

Acting is therefore the lowest of the arts, if it is an art at all.

Impressions and Opinions (1891)

It does not matter how badly you paint so long as you don't paint badly like other people.

Confessions of a Young Man (1886)

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

The Bending of the Bough (1900)

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In imitating the exemplary acts of a god or of a mythic hero, or simply by recounting their adventures, the man of an archaic society detaches himself from profane time and magically re-enters the Great Time, the sacred time.

Mircea Eliade Myths, Dreams and Mysteries (1967)

In your journey, be prepared to encounter an array of obstacles – some steep, some flat – for that's the nature of the path.

Sanu Sharma

Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.

Richard Francis Burton

All journeys end in disappointment if for no other reason than that they end.

Lucius Shepard

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