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“He who does not travel does not know the value of men.”

Moorish Proverb

“Our nature lies in movement; complete calm is death.”

Pascal, Pensées.

“One commonly held delusion is that men are the wanderers and women the guardians of the hearth and home. This can, of course be so. But women, above all, are the guardians of continuity: if the hearth moves, they move with it .”

Bruce Chatwin, The Songlines.

“I think I would be happy in that place I happen not to be, and this question of moving house is the subject of a perpetual dialogue I have with my soul.”

Baudelaire.