Jessamyn West - Travel Quotes

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The middle-aged bring to the idea of travel the romanticism with which they once gilded the idea of meeting a new man. Something will happen, they know not what.

Jessamyn West

You travel to discover yourself. At home there is known to you only the girl you remember. Who you really have become, you do not know. When you travel, that person emerges: she is mirrored in the faces of people you meet.

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We travel not to discover new lands or new people, but new selves.

Jessamyn West

Almost all travel is lost on teen-agers.... The young do not discover the world. They discover themselves, and travel only interrupts their trips to the interior.

Jessamyn West

Being consistent meant not departing from convictions already formulated; being a leader meant making other persons accept these convictions. It was a narrow track, and a one-way, but a person might travel a considerable distance on it. A number of dictators have.

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