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
Everything, it seemed, was built on opposites, on division. No breath could both be in and out, none could be free and yet orderly. Always the one paid for the other, though each was equally essentia l . Narcissus and Golmund ~ Herman Hesse
'But my dear Sebastian, you can't seriously believe it all.' ‘Can’t I?’ ‘I mean about Christmas and the star and the three kings and the ox and the ass.’ ‘Oh yes, I believe that. It’s a lovely idea.’ ‘But you can’t believe things because they’re a lovely idea.’ ‘But I do. That’s how I believe.’ – Charles and Sebastian, Brideshead Revisted, Evelyn Waugh. Bk.I, ch.4 P:63
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