“That you need a village, if only for the pleasure of leaving it. Your own village means that you're not alone, that you know there's something of you in the people and the plants and the soil, that even when you are not there it waits to welcome you.”
Source: The moon and the bonfire (1950), Chapter I, p. 9
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