Nicolas Bouvier quotes
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“Traveling outgrows its motives. It soon proves sufficient in itself. You think you are making a trip, but soon it is making you - or unmaking you.”
-- Nicolas BouvierSource : "On the road again" by Rory Maclean, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2007.
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“That day, I really believed that I had grasped something and that henceforth my life would be changed. But insights cannot be held for ever. Like water, the world ripples across you and for a while you take on its colours. Then it recedes, and leaves you face to face with the void you carry inside yourself, confronting that central inadequacy of soul which you must learn to rub shoulders with and to combat, and which, paradoxically, may be our surest impetus.”
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“In the end, the bedrock of existence is not made up of the family, or work, or what others say or think of you, but of moments like this when you are exalted by a transcendent power that is more serene than love. Life dispenses them parsimoniously; our feeble hearts could not stand more.”
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“Traveling provides occasions for shaking oneself up but not, as people believe, freedom. Indeed it involves a kind of reduction: deprived of one’s usual setting, the customary routine stripped away like so much wrapping paper, the traveller finds himself reduced to more modest proportions - but also more open to curiosity, to intuition, to love at first sight.”
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“A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.”
-- Nicolas Bouvier
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“I'm not lost for I know where I am. But however, where I am may be lost.”
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“A person who is keen to shake your hand usually has something up his sleeve.”
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“One must know ones enemy as he is, not as one, for whatever motives, wishes him to be.”
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“It is the man that makes the motive, and not the motive the man.”
Source : James McCosh (2009). “The Method of the Divine Government”, p.280, Applewood Books
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“The distance is nothing when one has a motive.”
Source : Jane Austen (2016). “Pride and Prejudice (Fourth Edition) (Norton Critical Editions)”, p.21, W. W. Norton & Company
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