Departure beyond the borders of my country is for me equivalent to death.

Boris Pasternak

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Topic

Travel

Author

Boris Pasternak

Medium

Letter

Language

Russian

Time

1958 1950s 20th century

Occupation

Poet Writer

From

Russia Europe

Authentication Score 3

Citation

Pasternak, Boris. Letter to Nikita Khrushchev. 30 Oct. 1958.

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I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

Robert Mueller

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Topic
Oppression of women
Speaker
Robert Mueller
Source
Look Magazine
Medium
Magazine
Language
English
Time
1957 1950s 20th century
Authentication Score 1
Citation

Mueller, Robert. Quoted in Look Magazine. 5 Mar. 1957.

Another quote about Travel

The traveler with nothing on him sings in the robber’s face.

Juvenal

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Topic
Traveling lightly Travel

Author

Juvenal
Source
Satires
Medium
Poem
Statement Type
Proverbs, aphorisms and adages
Language
Latin
Time
2nd century
Era
Classical antiquity
Authentication Score 3
Original Citation

Juvenal. Satirae [Satires]. c. 127, satire 10.

Current Citation

Juvenal. The Satires, translated by Niall Rudd. Oxford University Press, 2008, satire 10.

Another quote originally in Russian

There was peace in their hearts. They were filled with the fearlessness of those who have lost everything, the fearlessness which is not easy to come by but which endures.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

In the First Circle

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Topic
Fearlessness

Author

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
Source
In the First Circle
Medium
Novel
Language
Russian
Time
1968 1960s 20th century
Authentication Score 3
Citation

Solzhenitsyn, Aleksander. В круге первом [In the First Circle]. Collins & Harvill Press/‎Harper & Row, 1968, ch. 87.