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A man who embarks on a journey must know when to end it.

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Tahir Shah
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 16
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On a hard jungle journey nothing is so important as having a team you can trust.
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During the days I felt myself slipping into a kind of madness. Solitary confinement has an astonishing effect on the mind. The trip was to stay calm and keep myself occupied. I spent hours working out how to break free. But trying to escape would have been instant suicide.
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I felt sure we could gain the upper hand by putting ourselves in the mindset of the Incas.
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There’s nothing quite like a good quest for getting your blood pumping.
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Contemplation is a luxury, requiring time and alternatives.
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In Morocco, before you even get to the matter of the sale, you have to coax the owner to sell.
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The taste for glory can make ordinary men behave in extraordinary ways.
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On a harsh expedition, there's no space for anyone who does not intend to finish.
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I was becoming addicted to Bombay. There was squalor and poverty, but I had begun to realise my good fortune and would never again forget it.
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Real travel is not about the highlights with which you dazzle your friends once you're home. It's about the loneliness, the solitude, the evenings spent by yourself, pining to be somewhere else. Those are the moments of true value. You feel half proud of them and half ashamed and you hold them to your heart.
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To be selfless, you would give charity anonymously, walj softly on the earth, and look out for others-even total strangers-before you look out for yourself. For the Arab mind, the self is an obstacle, an impediment, in humanity's quest foe real progress.
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The Occident has never found it easy to grasp the strange netherworld of spirits that followers of Islam universally believe exist in a realm overlaid our own.
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The pursuit of illusion is not about studying for prizes, or for study's sake. There's no right or wrong, no pass or fail.
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