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Dervla Murphy Quote: “There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country – the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.”

1. “There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country – the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.”

2. “Whatever the theologians might say about heaven being in a state of union with God, I knew it consisted of an infinite library; and eternity was simply what enabled one to read uninterruptedly for ever.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “The more I see of unmechanized places and people the more conviced I become that machines have done incalculable damage by unbalancing the relationship between Man and Nature.”

3. “The more I see of unmechanized places and people the more conviced I become that machines have done incalculable damage by unbalancing the relationship between Man and Nature.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.”

4. “Buying a bicycle is a momentous event, akin to marriage: you are acquiring a partner.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods – there’s nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!”

5. “Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods – there’s nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.”

6. “With our mad lust for Uniformity and a Higher Standard of Living and Expanding Markets, we go to a country like Afghanistan and cruelly try to jerk her forward two thousand years in two decades, giving no thought to the profound shock this must be to her national psychology.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “Even a brief glimpse of what we were is valuable to help understand what we are.”

7. “Even a brief glimpse of what we were is valuable to help understand what we are.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.”

8. “On my tenth birthday a bicycle and an atlas coincided as presents and a few days later I decided to cycle to India.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.”

9. “The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.’ And.”

10. “For it is not death or hardship that is a fearful thing, but the fear of death and hardship.’ And.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “If I Am murdered en route it will have been well worth while!”

11. “If I Am murdered en route it will have been well worth while!”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.”

12. “Undoubtedly the Afghans must be, by our standards, the best-looking people in the world. They have everything; height, proportions, carriage, features and complexion.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.”

13. “I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “Each human spirit is immortalfor time cannot destroy.”

14. “Each human spirit is immortalfor time cannot destroy.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “Life would be just a neutral wasteland if one always ran away from the joys of love merely because one knew that pain and grief might be involved too.”

15. “Life would be just a neutral wasteland if one always ran away from the joys of love merely because one knew that pain and grief might be involved too.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “The more I see of life in these ‘undeveloped countries’ and of the methods adopted to ‘improve’ them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.”

16. “The more I see of life in these ‘undeveloped countries’ and of the methods adopted to ‘improve’ them, the more depressed I become. It seems criminal that the backwardness of a country like Afghanistan should be used as an excuse for America and Russia to have a tug-of-war for possession.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “There has been a sustained and dreadfully successful campaign to make most people dissatisfied with what I would call the normal life and some would call the simple life.”

17. “There has been a sustained and dreadfully successful campaign to make most people dissatisfied with what I would call the normal life and some would call the simple life.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.”

18. “It is far easier to explain to a three-year-old how babies are made than to explain the processes whereby bread or sugar appear on the table.”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “Is this something else our age does – on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are ‘developed’ and those who are not?”

19. “Is this something else our age does – on the one hand make communication easier than ever before, while on the other hand widening the gulf between those who are ‘developed’ and those who are not?”

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Dervla Murphy Quote: “To me, city-dwellers are The Dispossessed, unfortunates who have been deprived of every creature’s right to territory. There is a sense in which country folk, however impoverished, own their birthplace and all the land around it that can be covered in a long day’s tramp – the natural, immemorial limit to the territory of a human being.”

20. “To me, city-dwellers are The Dispossessed, unfortunates who have been deprived of every creature’s right to territory. There is a sense in which country folk, however impoverished, own their birthplace and all the land around it that can be covered in a long day’s tramp – the natural, immemorial limit to the territory of a human being.”

— Dervla Murphy

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