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“Everybody has to leave, everybody has to leave their home and come back so they can love it again for all new reasons.”
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― Through Painted Deserts: Light, God, and Beauty on the Open Road
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“The farther you go, however, the harder it is to return. The world has many edges, and it's easy to fall off.”
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“Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think we have left behind, accompany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory to which, sooner or later—no matter how many books we read, how many worlds we discover, or how much we learn or forget—we will return.”
― The Shadow of the Wind
― The Shadow of the Wind
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