“Travelling, one accepts everything; indignation stays at home. One looks, one listens, one is roused to enthusiasm by the most dreadful things because they are new. Good travellers are heartless.”

—  Elias Canetti

Source: The Voices of Marrakesh: A Record of a Visit

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