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“The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends.”

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends. You are constantly off balance. Nothing is yours except the essential things: air, sleep, dreams, sea, the sky - all things tending towards the eternal or what we imagine of it.”

“The wish to travel seems to me characteristically human: the desire to move, to satisfy your curiosity or ease your fears, to change the circumstances of your life, to be a stranger, to make a friend, to experience an exotic landscape, to risk the unknown.”

Humans Seems Moving Desire Wish Risk Circumstances Travel Curiosity Stranger Landscape Ease Exotic

Author:Paul Theroux

“Most travel, and certainly the rewarding kind, involves depending on the kindness of strangers, putting yourself into the hands of people you don't know and trusting them with your life.”

People Knows Kind Hands Kindness Travel Stranger

Book:The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

Source: The Tao of Travel: Enlightenments from Lives on the Road

“Traveling is a brutality. It forces you to trust strangers and to lose sight of all that familiar comfort of home and friends”

“The most difficult task for anyone wandering through a foreign land with the hope of gaining some insight into it is the profound need to come to terms with the lives and thoughts of strangers.”

Needs Difficult Term Land Travel Tasks Profound Stranger Insight Wander Difficult Tasks Foreign Lands

Book:Korea: a walk through the land of miracles

Source: Korea: a walk through the land of miracles

“My Scottie refused to go for a walk with a friend of the house, but she would joyously accompany any stranger who drove a car.”

Funny House Walks Dog Car Travel Stranger Accompany

Author:Mazo de la Roche

“A place has almost the shyness of a person, with strangers; and its secret is not to be surprised by a too direct interrogation.”

Persons Secret Travel Direct Stranger Shyness Interrogation

Author:Arthur Symons

“To be a stranger in a strange land: Whenever one feasts, one thinks of one's brother twice as much as before, There where my brother far away is ascending, The dogwood is flowering, and a man is missed.”

Thinking Men Land Strange Brother Travel Stranger My Brother Far Away Flowering Ascending Stranger In A Strange Land

Author:Wang Wei

“Moments later, I was climbing nervously into the back of the car. The driver wore the archetypal expression of an antagonist. No words were exchanged beyond the brief lines uttered to this nameless stranger, whose inclinations remained unclear. The car sped along empty roads and traversed dingy alleyways. Music blared from its speakers. I did not remember exhaling throughout the entire journey.”

Source: The Desire for Elsewhere