Painterly worn leather suitcase with a map tucked beside its latch and green travel items nearby.

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Jack Kerouac

All of life is a foreign country.

Behind the line

What it means

Our interpretation.

The speaker suggests that existence itself is unfamiliar territory, where everyone is a visitor without a native's ease. Customs, rules and meanings must be learned as we go, and belonging never quite arrives. The metaphor turns ordinary living into a long trip abroad, with all the wonder and disorientation that implies.

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