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“We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.”
― Pascal Mercier, Night Train to Lisbon

tags: home, identity, leaving, life, moving-on, past, travel

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“And the frontier in here?" the North American woman had asked, tapping her forehead. "And the frontier in hear?" General Arroyo had responded, touching his heart. "There's one frontier we only dare to cross at night," the old gringo said. "The frontier of our differences with others, of our battles with ourselves.”
― Carlos Fuentes, The Old Gringo

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“He was healthier than the rest of us, but when you listened with the stethoscope you could hear the tears bubbling inside his heart.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Chronicle of a Death Foretold

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“Samo u snovima, u poeziji, u igri - zapaliti svijeću, šetati s njome hodnikom - kadšto provirujemo u ono što smo bili prije nego što smo postali ovo za što ne znamo jesmo li uopće.”
― Cortázar Julio

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“A função do jornalismo nesta época, por exemplo, ou, pelo menos, nesta sociedade, não era informar, era escamotear toda e qualquer forma de discernimento entre a mentira e a verdade, substituir a realidade por uma ficção na qual se manifesta a massa oceânica de complexos, frustrações, invejas, ódios e traumas de um público corroídos pelo ressentimento e pela inveja. Mais uma prova de que os pequenos espaços de civilização nunca prevaleceriam sobre a incomensurável barbárie.”
― Mario Vargas Llosa, The Discreet Hero

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