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“You don’t have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.”
― James Baldwin, Giovanni’s Room

“There you have the difference between greatness and mediocrity. It's not an uncommon disease. But it's nice for a mediocre man to know that greatness must be the loneliest state in the world.”
― John Steinbeck, East of Eden

“I said that one of the most infectious things i know is laughter. But sorrow can also be contagious. Fear is different. It isn't communicable as laughter or sadness, and good thing too. Fear is almost entirely a lonely thing.”
― Jostein Gaarder, The Orange Girl