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Quote by Herman Melville
It is not down in any map; true places never are. - Herman Melvill

It is not down in any map; true places never are. – Herman Melville

Other quotes by Herman Melville

Let us speak, though we show all our faults and weaknesses, – for it is a sign of strength to be weak, to know it, and out with it – not in a set way and ostentatiously, though, but incidentally and without premeditation. – Herman Melville

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As you think, you travel, and as you love, you attract. You are today where your thoughts have brought you you will be tomorrow where your thoughts take you. – James Lane Allen

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I desperately want a dog, but Ive been told I travel too much, and Im not allowed to have a dog. – Victoria Pratt

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Every perfect traveler always creates the country where he travels. – Nikos Kazantzakis

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Travel books are, by and large, boring. They lodge uncomfortably between fact, fiction and autobiography. – Arthur Smith

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Poems reach up like spindrift and the edge of driftwood along the beach, wanting! They derive from a slow and powerful root that we can’t see. Stop the words now. Open the window in the center of your chest, and let the spirits fly in and out. – Rumi, as interpreted by Coleman Barks

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Ive learned how to look at things and not judge them, but respect them and use it in a way that people understand that I respect them, show them love and respect their reality. – Doug E. Fresh

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Every man has the right to risk his own life in order to preserve it. Has it ever been said that a man who throws himself out the window to escape from a fire is guilty of suicide? – Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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My optimism is not based primarily on the successful march of democracy in recent times but rather is based on the experience of having lived in a fear society and studied the mechanics of tyranny that sustain such a society. – Natan Sharansky

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