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Joan Didion1 quote
A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image. — Joan Didion · 1979Lawrence Durrell1 quote
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. — Lawrence Durrell · 1957Martial1 quote
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. — Martial · 103Publilius Syrus1 quote
A rolling stone gathers no moss. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BC