Those who appreciate the ways of simple tribes, where every activity is direct and immediately understandable, are able to live among them.

Not only does travel give us a new system of reckoning, it also brings to the fore unknown aspects of our own self. Our consciousness being broadened and enriched, we shall judge ourselves more correctly.

I wanted to learn a few foreign languages, and therefore I had to go abroad.

One travels to run away from routine, that dreadful routine that kills all imagination and all our capacity for enthusiasm.

Shall we ever see the 10 million things of the universe simultaneously in order to be the all? I am convinced that to live is to travel towards the world's end.

I refuse to imprison our acts in the rigid mould of sentences.

The usual channels of university studies or secretarial work did not appeal to me. I cherished difficult dreams through confidence in myself.