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“It's an old sailor's idea that every ship has a rope with one end made fast to her bows and the other held by the loved ones at home.”

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Bruce Chatwin

Bruce Chatwin was an English novelist known for his unique travel literature and adventure novels. His works often combined history, travel, and anthropology, winning him a wide readership. more

“I ... had what Kierkegaard called 'the sickness of infinitude,' wandering from one path to another with no real recognition that I was embarked upon a search, and scarcely a clue as to what I might be after. I only knew that at the bottom of each breath there was a hollow place that needed to be filled.”

Real Might Path Needed Breaths Filled Bottom Wander Recognition Sickness Clue Hollow

Book:The Snow Leopard

Source: The Snow Leopard

“They are travelling cheaply, with that touch of indolence and occasional luxury that comes only from having real resources. They live in Levis and sunlight. Sometimes they brush their teeth in streams.”

Real Sometimes Resources Teeth Luxury Streams Sunlight Brushes Occasional Indolence

Book:A Sport and a Pastime

Source: A Sport and a Pastime

“If you want to propose marriage to your girlfriend and you live in England and she is in Sicily, do the decent thing and walk down there. Travelling by car or aeroplane wouldn't be right at such a moment.”

Ifs Want Moments Walks Car England Girlfriend Decent Propose Aeroplanes Your Girlfriend

Author:Werner Herzog

“One of the pleasures of travel is to dive into places where others are compelled to live and come out unscathed, full of the malicious pleasure of abandoning them to their fate.”

Pleasure Fate Compelled Malicious

Book:Cool Memories II, 1987-1990

Source: Cool Memories II, 1987-1990

“Travelling through the world produces a marvellous clarity in the judgment of men. We are all of us confined and enclosed within ourselves, and see no farther than the end of our nose.”

Men World Ends Produce Judgment Clarity Noses Confined Marvellous

Author:Michel de Montaigne

“The worship of God is, Honouring his gifts in other men each according to his genius, and loving the greatest men best; those who envy or calumniate great men hate God, for there is no other God.”

Men Hate Genius Worship Envy Great Men Greatest Man Hate God

Book:William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

Source: William Blake: Selected Poetry and Prose

“Gods should not resemble men in their anger!”

Men Should

Book:Bacchae of Euripides

Source: Bacchae of Euripides

“What doubt can you have of the Creator when you behold His creation?... Who has decked the heavenly firmament with its stars? Who has clothed the earth in its beauty? How could it be without the creator?”

Earth Stars Doubt Creation Creator Heavenly Firmament

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“One should feel inside oneself for right and wrong, and should have the patience to gradually realise one's God.”

Feels Should Should Have Oneself Realising

Book:D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)

“God in heaven has dominion Over so many events. He can frustrate what seems inevitable, And bring to pass the thing that you least expect.”

Seems Heaven Events Inevitable Dominion

Author:Euripides

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