"A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of strugg...

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...people don’t take trips—trips take people.

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"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think you control it.
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"What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.
"Curious how a place unvisited can take such hold on the mind so that the very name sets up a ringing.
"A journey is like marriage. The certain way to be wrong is to think youcontrol it.