“Dead is the travel of all our travels.”
Antoni Lange (1862–1929) Polish writer and philosopher
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“It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.”
La Nuit des Bulgares in Plume (1938) (Used as introductory line in Jim Jarmusch's film "Dead Man".)
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