Traveling, you realize that differences are lost: each city takes to resembling all cities, places exchange their form, order, distances, a shapeless dust cloud invades the continents.

  • -- Italo Calvino 伊塔罗·卡尔维诺

旅行时,你会意识到差异已经消失了:每个城市都变得与所有城市相似,各个地方交换了它们的形式、秩序、距离,一片无形的尘雾侵入了大陆。

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As the traveler who has once been from home is wiser than he who has never left his own doorstep, so a knowledge of one other culture should sharpen our ability to scrutinize more steadily, to appreciate more lovingly, our own.

正如曾经离开家的旅行者比从未离开过自己家的人更聪明一样,对另一种文化的了解应该提高我们更坚定地审视自己的能力,更深情地欣赏自己的文化。

My favorite thing is to go where I've never been.

我最喜欢去我从未去过的地方。