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“A study of the Great Malady; horror of home.”

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Intimate Journals is a compilation of deeply personal entries, providing readers with an unfiltered view of the author's innermost feelings and reflections. more

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Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire, a renowned French poet and literary critic, was born on April 9, 1821, and died on August 31, 1867. His poetry is known for its unique symbolism and has had a profound impact on modern literature. more

“The tourist debauches the great monuments of antiquity, a comic figure, always inapt in his comments, incongruous in his appearance; ...avarice and deceit attack him at every step; the shops that he patronizes are full of forgeries... But we need feel no scruple or twinge of uncertainty; 'we' are travelers and cosmopolitans; the tourist is the other fellow.”

Needs Feels Steps Figures Fellows Appearance Comic Uncertainty Shops Deceit Comment Traveler Monument Tourists Avarice Every Step Antiquity Scruples Forgery

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“If there is anything worse than the aching tedium of staring out of car windows, it is the irritation of getting tickets, packing, finding trains, lying in bouncing berths, washing without water, digging out passports, and fighting through customs. To live in Carlsbad is seemly and to loaf at San Remo healing to the soul, but to get from Carlsbad to San Remo is of the devil.”

Ifs Soul Lying Fighting Water Healing Car Findings Devil Window Train Staring Customs Tickets Washing Digging Passports Irritation Packing Tedium Fighting Through

Book:Dodsworth

Source: Dodsworth

“But we love the Old Travelers. We love to hear them prate and drivel and lie.”

Lying Traveler Drivel

Book:The Innocents Abroad

Source: The Innocents Abroad

“In discussing these exceptions from the course of nature, the first question is, whether the fact be justly stated. That which is strange is delightful, and a pleasing error is not willingly detected.”

Firsts Facts Courses Strange Errors Exception Delightful Discussing

Book:Journeys in Scotland: Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, The Clyde: River and Firth

Source: Journeys in Scotland: Journey to the Western Isles of Scotland, Leaves from the Journal of Our Life in the Highlands, The Clyde: River and Firth

“I had always planned to make a large painting of the early spring, when the first leaves are at the bottom of the trees, and they seem to float in space in a wonderful way. But the arrival of spring can't be done in one picture.”

Way Firsts Done Seems Space Wonderful Tree Painting Spring Bottom Floats Arrivals Early Spring

Author:David Hockney

“... the understatement, the self-ridicule, the delight in the foreignness of foreigners, the complete denial of any attempt to enlist the sympathies of his readers in the hardships he has capriciously invited.”

Self Reader Delight Denial Hardship Invited Ridicule Foreigners Understatement

Author:Evelyn Waugh

“We found in the course of our journey the convenience of having disencumbered ourselves, by laying aside whatever we could spare; for it is not to be imagined without experience, how in climbing crags and treading bogs, and winding through narrow and obstructed passages, a little bulk will hinder, and a little weight will burden; or how often a man that has pleased himself at home with his own resolution, will, in the hour of darkness and fatigue, be content to leave behind him everything but himself.”

Source: Journey to the Hebrides: A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland & The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides

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