"Before the development of tourism, travel was conceived to be like study, and it's fruits were considered to be the adornment of the mind and the formation of the judgment."

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Source : Paul Fussell (1982). “Abroad: British Literary Traveling between the Wars”, p.39, Oxford University Press

Paul Fussell

#Mind Quotes #Development Quotes #Fruit Quotes

“Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.”
“Very few politicians in Washington really represent the interests of many people.”
“The mission of the church is missions.”
“If you even dream of beating me you'd better wake up and apologize.”
“Cleaning isn't all that interesting to me. I'm disorganized.”
“Not in the clamor of the crowded street, not in the shouts and plaudits of the throng, but in ourselves, are triumph and defeat.”
“I am not a mechanism, an assembly of various sections. and it is not because the mechanism is working wrongly, that I am ill. I am ill because of wounds to the soul, to the deep emotional self, and the wounds to the soul take a long, long time, only time can help and patience, and a certain difficult repentance long difficult repentance, realization of lifeâ€™s mistake, and the freeing oneself from the endless repetition of the mistake which mankind at large has chosen to sanctify.”
“Music is...the coordination between man and time.”

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