quotes

So, after all, we have not
failed to make use of these spaces, these
spaces of ours. (How frighteningly great they must be,
since thousands of years have not made them overflow with our
feelings.)

i feel that way when i travel, don't you? the place is just bursting with freshness and vividness and experience and life, and you wonder, is the place the source? or is it me?

on travel:

"i must have pictured myself as rich in something i couldn't spend."

"even when you can't wait to get out of some hellhole you've chosen to visit, later you're never sorry you were there."

(this second quote reminds me of a line i might have posted earlier- voltaire- "if we do not find anything pleasant, at least we shall find something new." same sentiment, prettier prose.)