The Rock That is Higher: Story as Truth (1993)
Context: We are all strangers in a strange land, longing for home, but not quite knowing what or where home is. We glimpse it sometimes in our dreams, or as we turn a corner, and suddenly there is a strange, sweet familiarity that vanishes almost as soon as it comes…
“traveling - it gives you home in thousand strange places, then leaves you a stranger in your own land.”
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Moroccan explorer 1304–1377Related quotes
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