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The geographical pilgrimage is the symbolic acting out an inner journey. The inner journey is the in...

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I am tired of safe places, and roofs, and walls around me.

Nostalgia in reverse, the longing for yet another strange land, grew especially strong in spring.

That’s the place to get to—nowhere. One wants to wander away from the world’s somewheres, into our o...

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all my life i have lived and behaved very much like the sandpiper just running down the edges of dif...

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If somebody tells you there's a rule, break it.

I love to sail forbidden seas and land on barbarous coasts.

All that is gold does not glitter,Not all those who wander are lost.

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J. R. R. TolkienThe Fellowship of the Ring

because he had no place he could stay in without getting tired of it and because there was nowhere t...

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...but I preferred reading the American landscape as we went along. Every bump, rise, and stretch in...

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There was a lust of wandering in his feet that burned to set out for the ends of the earth. On! On! ...

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

When you're a kid all you want to do is be somewhere else.

There was no desire in him for a state or condition, no picture in his mind of the thing to be when ...

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John SteinbeckCup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan

You don't even know where I'm going.""I don't care. I'd like to go anywhere.

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John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

It is hardly unusual for a young man to be drawn to a pursuit considered reckless by his elders; eng...

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It will no longer be necessary to leave one's own home in order to find work in the surrounding dist...

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I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from h...

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An ardent desire to go took possession of me once more. Not because I wanted to leave - I was quite ...

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..luxury is the enemy of observation, a costly indulgence that induces such a good feeling that you ...

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Paul TherouxGhost Train to the Eastern Star

Delay and dirt are the realities of the most rewarding travel.

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Paul TherouxGhost Train to the Eastern Star

Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you. Exploration is experiencing what you have not...

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For I was reared in the great city, pent with cloisters dim,and saw naught lovely but the sky and st...

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I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I ...

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Sherwood AndersonDeath in the Woods and Other Stories