The Wise Traveler Learns Not

Before The Development Of Tourism, Travel Was Conceived To Be Like Study, And It's Fruits Were Considered To Be The Adornment Of The Mind And The Formation Of The Judgment.

Exploration Belongs To The Renaissance, Travel To The Bourgeois Age, Tourism To Our Proletarian Moment.

Tourism Requires That You See Conventional Things, And That You See Them In A Conventional Way.

Anyone Telling About His Travels Must Be A Liar, . . . For If A Traveler Doesn't Visit His Narrative With The Spirit And Techniques Of Fiction, No One Will Want To Hear It.

All The Pathos And Irony Of Leaving One’s Youth Behind Is Thus Implicit In Every Joyous Moment Of Travel