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Traveling is not just seeing the new; it is also leaving behind. Not just opening doors; also closing them behind you, never to return. But the place you have left forever is always there for you to see whenever you shut your eyes.

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There is a third dimension to traveling, the longing for what is beyond.

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Jan Myrdal

Jan Myrdal

Born: July 19, 1927
Died: October 30, 2020 (aged 93)
Bio: Jan Myrdal was a Swedish author, leftist-political writer and columnist. He was an honorary doctor of literature at Upsala College in New Jersey, US, and a PhD at Nankai University in Tianjin in China. He lived at various times in the United States, Afghanistan, Iran and India.
Known for:
  1. India waits (1980)
  2. Confessions of a disloyal European (1968)
  3. Childhood (1991)
  4. 12 Going on 13

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