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• Sometimes, I feel like a time traveller, cause the only way that we can really travel in time is just to get older.

  William Gibson

  Way, Causes, Sometimes

  Interview with Eric Holstein and Raoul Abdaloff, www.actusf.com. March 2008.

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• WEATHERS This is the weather the cuckoo likes, And so do I; When showers betumble the chestnut spikes, And nestlings fly; And the little brown nightingale bills his best, And they sit outside at 'The Traveller's Rest,' And maids come forth sprig-muslin drest, And citizens dream of the south and west, And so do I. This is the weather the shepherd shuns, And so do I; When beeches drip in browns and duns, And thresh and ply; And hill-hid tides throb, throe on throe, And meadow rivulets overflow, And drops on gate bars hang in a row, And rooks in families homeward go, And so do I.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dream, Weather, Shepherds

  Late Lyrics and Earlier (1922) "Weathers"

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• And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh — but smile no more.

  Edgar Allan Poe

  Moving, Doors, Rivers

  Edgar Allan Poe (2004). “The Collected Tales and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe”, p.737, Wordsworth Editions

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• ...solitary like a pool at evening, far distant, seen from a train window, vanishing so quickly that the pool, pale in the evening, is scarcely robbed of its solitude, though once seen. *** Here sitting on the world, she thought, for she could not shake herself free from the sense that everything this morning was happening for the first time, perhaps for the last time, as a traveller, even though he is half asleep, knows, looking out of the train window, that he must look now, for he will never see that town, or that mule-cart, or that woman at work in the fields, again.

  Virginia Woolf

  Morning, Solitude, Looks

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• Death is not the end Death can never be the end. Death is the road. Life is the traveller. The Soul is the Guide ... Our mind thinks of death. Our heart thinks of life Our soul thinks of Immortality

  Sri Chinmoy

  Death, Heart, Thinking

  Sri Chinmoy (2015). “Beyond Within: A Philosophy for the Inner Life”, p.101, Aum Publications

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• I have nothing to tell except travellers' stories, which are always tiresome, like the description of a play which was very exciting to those who saw it.

  George Eliot

  Play, Saws, Stories

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• We shed as we pick up, like travellers who must carry everything in their arms, and what we let fall will be picked up by those behind. The procession is very long and life is very short. We die on the march. but there is nothing outside the march so nothing can be lost to it.

  Tom Stoppard

  Fall, Long, Arms

  Tom Stoppard (2013). “Arcadia”, p.52, Faber & Faber

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• At religious instruction classes, I encountered The Pilgrims Progress by John Bunyan, and the sincerity of the traveller in that book was overwhelming.

  Lionel Blue

  Religious, Book, Class

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• The road to ruin is always in good repair, and the travellers pay the expense of it.

  Josh Billings

  Pay, Ruins, Comedy

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• Lesson one in time travel, Thursday. First of all, we are all time travellers. The vast majority of us manage only one day per day.

  Jasper Fforde

  One Day, Majority, Lessons

  Jasper Fforde (2003). “Lost in a Good Book”, Viking Adult

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• What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.

  Hermann Hesse

  Disappointment, Passion, Reality

  Hermann Hesse (1957). “Magister Ludi”, Frederick Ungar

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• The fact is, the Time Traveller was one of those men who are too clever to be believed: you never felt that you saw all round him; you always suspected some subtle reserve, some ingenuity in ambush, behind his lucid frankness.

  H. G. Wells

  Clever, Men, Saws

  H G Wells (2004). “The Time Machine (Sparklesoup Classics)”, p.12, Sparklesoup LLC

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• But he found that a traveller's life is one that includes much pain amidst its enjoyments. His feelings are for ever on the stretch; and when he begins to sink into repose, he finds himself obliged to quit that on which he rests in pleasure for something new, which again engages his attention, and which also he forsakes for other novelties.

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

  Pain, Feelings, Attention

  Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Joseph Pearce (2008). “Frankenstein”, p.155, Ignatius Press

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• It is comforting that travel should have an architecture, and that it is possible to contribute a few stones to it, although the traveller is less like one who constructs landscapes -- for that is a sedentary task -- than like one who destroys them. . . . But even destruction is a form of architecture, a deconstruction that follows certain rules and calculations, an art of disassembling and reassembling, or of creating another and different order.

  Claudio Magris

  Art, Should Have, Creating

  Claudio Magris (2001). “Danube”, Vintage

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• Languages are jealous sovereigns, and passports are rarely allowed for travellers to cross their strictly guarded borders.

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Jealous, Borders, Language

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• Travellers are just commuters with a wider perspective.

  William G. Taylor

  Travel, Perspective

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• The traveller's-eye view of men and women is not satisfying. A man might spend his life in trains and restaurants and know nothing of humanity at the end. To know, one must be an actor as well as a spectator.

  Aldous Huxley

  Eye, Men, Views

  Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

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• what he sought was always something lying ahead, and even if it was a matter of the past it was a past that changed gradually as he advanced on his journey, because the traveller's past changes according to the route he has followed: not the immediate past, that is, to which each day that goes by adds a day, but the more remote past. Arriving at each new city, the traveller finds again a past of his that he did not know he had: the foreignness of what you no longer are or no longer possess lies in wait for you in foreign, unpossessed places.

  Italo Calvino

  Lying, Past, Journey

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• I've become a less brave traveller since I became a dad, but in the past I was more foolhardy than brave.

  David Mitchell

  Dad, Past, Brave

  "Finding the route of inspiration". Interview with Carl Wilkinson, www.theguardian.com. April 17, 2005.

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• your lives be as full and happy as ours,and may the seasons be kind to you and your friends. The door of our Abbey is always open to any travellers roaming the dusty path between the woodlands and the plains.

  Brian Jacques

  Doors, May, Roaming

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• It was one of those hot, silent nights, when people sit at windows listening for the thunder which they know will shortly break; when they recall dismal tales of hurricanes and earthquakes; and of lonely travellers on open plains, and lonely ships at sea, struck by lightning.

  Charles Dickens

  Lonely, Nature, Night

  Charles Dickens (2015). “Martin Chuzzlewit”, p.731, Booklassic

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• The mere mention of the Farakka Express, which jerks its way eastward each day from Delhi to Calcutta, is enough to throw even a seasoned traveller into fits of apoplexy. At a desert encampment on Namibia's Skeleton Coast, a hard-bitten adventurer had downed a peg of local fire-water then told me the tale. Farakka was a ghost train, he said, haunted by ghouls, Thuggees, and thieves. Only a passenger with a death wish would go anywhere near it.

  Tahir Shah

  Fire, Ghouls, Skeletons

  Tahir Shah (2013). “Sorcerer's Apprentice paperback”, p.39, Lulu.com

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• It is like the thirsty traveller who at first sincerely sought the water of knowledge, but who later, having found it plain perhaps, proceeded to temper his cup with the salt of doubt so that his thirst now becomes insatiable though he drinks incessantly, and that in thus drinking the water that cannot slake his thirst, he has forgotten the original and true purpose for which the water was sought.

  Syed Muhammad Naquib al-Attas

  Drinking, Water, Doubt

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• Easy roads make sleepy travellers.

  Charles Spurgeon

  Sleepy, Easy, Easy Road

  Charles Spurgeon (2016). “Morning and Evening”, p.1192, Discovery House

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• For every traveller who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

  Aldous Huxley

  Taste, Written

  Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2000). “Complete Essays: 1920-1925”, Ivan R Dee

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