I've tried that too, and I agree, you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another, except that I didn't know it then because I hadn't read Ernest Hemingway's "The Sun Also Rises" yet.
At 14:32 in the audiobook recording above,
or on page 11 in the book "The Sun Also Rises"
Isn't it strange how some of the best lines, the most penetrating lines, in some books are never repeated in the movies? I could quote you countless lines - but I won't - from "Heart of Darkness" to "Lord Jim" and from "Out of Africa" to "The Painted Veil", which lodged themselves forever in my memory but which are never spoken in the movies. "Going to another country doesn't make any difference. I've tried all that. You can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another" is one of them.
