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“He laughed. ‘Well, isn't it true? You don't have a home until you leave it and then, when you have left it, you never can go back.’
‘I seem,’ I said, ‘to have heard this song before.’
‘Ah, yes,’ said Giovanni, ‘and you will certainly hear it again. It is one of those songs that somebody somewhere will always be singing.’”

“People who remember court madness through pain, the pain of the perpetually recurring death of their innocence; people who forget court another kind of madness, the madness of the denial of pain and the hatred of innocence; and the world is mostly divided between madmen who remember and madmen who forget.”