Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
– Paul Theroux
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- I travel not to go anywhere, but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move. – Robert Louis Stevenson
- Travel makes me feel like a bird,Travel gives me a sense of freedom,Travel makes me come alive! – Archana Chaurasia Kapoor
- For my part, i travel not to go anywhere but to go. I travel for travel’s sake. The great affair is to move – Robert Davis Stevenson
- So, go. Travel far. Travel courageously. Travel young. – Alanda Kariza
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- In her glamorous quest for the darkest light and the lowest high, she now found herself wallowing on the bottom of a filthy garbage bin. – Terri Blackstock
- Show your vulnerability, but have faith. You will succeed. Growth is not glamorous. – Shu Hattori
- Isabelle was exactly Simon’s type-”tall, glamorous, and beautiful. Come to think of it, maybe that was everyone’s type. – Cassandra Clare
- Everything sinful is glamorous these days, isn’t it? – Aimee Agresti
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- In retrospect we can only be thankful to all the mistakes that we made and to all the lessons that we learned from them! – Avijeet Das
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- Retrospect: the sweetener of life. – Kamand Kojouri
- The path of development is a journey of discovery that is clear only in retrospect, and it’s rarely a straight line. – Eileen KennedyMoore
- I believe there are visions that come to us only in memory, in retrospect. – Marilynne Robinson
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- That’s why I write, because life never works except in retrospect. You can’t control life, at least you can control your version. – Chuck Palahniuk
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