"Books have their idiosyncrasies as well as people, and will not show me their full beauties unless the place and time in which they are read suits them."

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How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.

— Vita Sackville-West