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Travellers like poets are mostly an angry race.

— Richard Francis Burton

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Reason is Life's sole arbiter, the magic Laby'rinth's single clue:
Worlds lie above, beyond its ken; what crosses it can ne'er be true.

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

Of the gladest moments in human life, methinks is the departure upon a distant journey to unknown lands.

Conquer thyself, till thou hast done this, thou art but a slave; for it is almost as well to be subjected to another's appetite as to thine own.

Support a compatriot against a native, however the former may blunder or plunder.

Exploration of the Highlands of Brazil (1869)

He advocates suspension of judgment, with a proper suspicion of "Facts, the idlest of superstitions."

The Kasîdah of Hâjî Abdû El-Yezdî (1870)

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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.

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

Lucius Shepard

I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

Oscar Wilde The Importance of Being Earnest (1895)

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