Suddenly, she heard a loud bang, a thump and a scream that caused her to jump from the bed. The hair on the back of her neck stood straight up and her body became one big goosebump.
What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country _ we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits _ this is why we should not say that we travel for pleasure. There is no pleasure in traveling, and I look upon it more as an occasion for spiritual testing _ Pleasure takes us away from ourselves in the same way as distraction, in Pascal__ use of the word, takes us away from God. Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
Notebooks, 1935-1951
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What gives value to travel is fear. It is the fact that, at a certain moment, when we are so far from our own country _ we are seized by a vague fear, and an instinctive desire to go back to the protection of old habits _ this is why we should not say that we travel for pleasure. There is no pleasure in traveling, and I look upon it more as an occasion for spiritual testing _ Pleasure takes us away from ourselves in the same way as distraction, in Pascal__ use of the word, takes us away from God. Travel, which is like a greater and a graver science, brings us back to ourselves.
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