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The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself. – Ella Maillart

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Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly. – Ella Maillart

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Travel
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Travel can also be the spirit of adventure somewhat tamed, for those who desire to do something they are a bit afraid of. – Ella Maillart

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Travel
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One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm. – Ella Maillart

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Imagination
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We can bring to characters dark and bright sides that nobody even dreams about. – Sonia Braga

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America allows us to be able to dream, then gives us the ability to achieve those dreams. – Rick Mears

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Dreaming in public is an important part of our job description, as science writers, but there are bad dreams as well as good dreams. Were dreamers, you see, but were also realists, of a sort. – William Gibson

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Dreams

Hes dreaming with his eyes open, and those that dream with their eyes open are dangerous, for they do not know when their dreams come to an end. – Hugo Pratt

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The past is a foreign country; they do things differently there. – Lesley P. Hartley, The Go-Between, 1953

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A lawyer who does not know men is handicapped. – William Dunbar

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So Im more at home with my backpack, sleeping in a hotel room or on a bus or on an airplane, than I am necessarily on a bed. Its weird being here. It feels like Im standing next to my real life. – Henry Rollins

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We may consider each generation as a distinct nation, with a right, by the will of its majority, to bind themselves, but none to bind the succeeding generation, more than the inhabitants of another country. – Thomas Jefferson

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