Jan Myrdal Quotes

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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.

Jan Myrdal

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

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.

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