Travel, like dreams, is a door that opens from the real world into a world that is yet to be discovered

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We live always under the weight of the old and odious customs... of our barbarous ancestors.

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Whether we are describing a king, an assassin, a thief, an honest man, a prostitute, a nun, a young girl, or a stallholder in a market, it is always ourselves that we are describing.

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Life is a slope. As long as you're going up you're always looking towards the top and you feel happy, but when you reach it, suddenly you can see the road going downhill and death at the end of it all. It's slow going up and quick going down.

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There is only one good thing in life, and that is love.

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Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.

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Our memory is a more perfect world than the universe: it gives back life to those who no longer exist.

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The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.

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Patriotism is a kind of religion; it is the egg from which wars are hatched.

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Of all the passions, the only one that seems respectable to me is the passion for food

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