“Every perfect traveller always creates the country where he travels.”
Nikos Kazantzakis (1883–1957) Greek writer
As quoted in Reporter in Red China (1966) by Charles Taylor
“He didn’t really like travel, of course. He liked the idea of travel, and the memory of travel, but not travel itself.”
— Julian Barnes, book Flaubert's Parrot
Source: Flaubert's Parrot
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