Monday 23 May 2011

Theophile Gautier - 1843 wrote to his friend Nerval in Ciaro

"People are not always of the country in which they where born and, when you are prey to such a condition, you search everywhere for your true country. Those who are made this way feel exiled in their own town, strangers in their homes; they are tormented by bouts of inverted homesickness. Its is a strange malady: its victims feel like caged birds of passage. When the time comes to leave, you are troubled by great desires and the sight of clouds moving off towards the sun is strangely disquieting."

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