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If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

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To travel across Spain and finally to reach Barcelona is like drinking a respectable red wine and finishing up with a bottle of champagne.

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The South Pacific is not a paradise, in the sense that Eden wasn't either. There are always apples and snakes. But it is a wonderful place to live. Th...more

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The South Pacific is memorable because when you are in the islands you simply cannot ignore nature. You cannot avoid looking up at the stars, large as...more

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With my pen I have engraved warrants of citizenship in the most remote corners, for truly the world has been my home.

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At times, working in big cities far from nature, I have been sick with nesomania, and I think the reason is this: On the islands one has both the time...more

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What did I learn in my travels? In whatever foreign country I visited I met dreamers who longed to reach America and its promise of an enriched life s...more