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It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The sensible approach would be to the expect the worst, ...more

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Our hearts are light and gay because now its happening, we're starting, we're travelling again.

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I took only one suitcase, and a cosmetics case for medicines but I was worried about books. Solitude is all right with books, awful without.

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... none had been outside Russia. I kept trying to remember something that I had read about a species of fish that was born, lived, spawned, died in t...more