Nicolas Bouvier Quotes:
Ocupation: Writer
Life: March 6, 1929 - February 17, 1998
Birthday: March 6
Death: February 17
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.
topic: Believe, Sight, People, Wrapping, Wrapping Paper
