But the landscapes we dream are just shades of the landscapes we've seen, and the tedium of dreaming them is almost as great as the tedium of looking at the world.
Fernando Pessoa
Wednesday, 25 May 2011
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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."
"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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