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Travel makes one modest. you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
-Gustave Flaubert
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Travel Makes One Modest. You See What

Gustave Flaubert
Travel makes one modest. you see what a tiny place you occupy in the world.
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Those five fingers and that palm were like a display case crammed full of everything i wanted to know--and everything i had to know. by taking my hand, she showed me what these things were. that within the real world, a place like this existed. in the space of those ten seconds i became i tiny bird, fluttering in the air, the wind rushing by. from high in the sky i could see a scene far away. it was so far off i couldn't make it out clearly, yet something was there, and i knew that someday i would travel to that place.
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