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It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

— Henri Michaux La Nuit des Bulgares in Plume (1938)

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You can love a woman. To admire her is hard. You are not dealing with something important.

Ecuador (1929)

It is almost an intellectual tradition to pay heed to the insane. In my case those that I most respect are the morons.

Ecuador (1929)

A man who knows neither how to travel nor how to keep a journal has put together this travel journal. But at the moment of signing he is suddenly afraid. So he casts the first stone. Here.

Preface to Ecuador (1929)

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

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Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.

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

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