Quote #154

To travel? In order to travel it's enough to be. [...] Why travel? In Madrid, in Berlin, in Persia, in China, at the Poles both, where would I be but in myself, and in the sort and kind of my sensations? // Life is what we make of it. Travels are travellers. What we see is not what we see but what we are.

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  2. I'd like to be in the country so that I'd could like being in the city.
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  5. And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.
  6. In any spirit that isn't deformed there is the belief in God. In any spirit that is not deformed there isn't the belief in a particular God.
  7. That's not my love; that's just your life.
  8. I'm a man for whom the outside world is an inner reality.

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