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“How often have I lain beneath rain on a strange roof, thinking of home.”

― William Faulkner, As I Lay Dying

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“It is impossible to win the great prizes of life without running risks, and the greatest of all prizes are those connected with the home.”

― Theodore Roosevelt, Theodore Roosevelt; an Autobiography

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“It is not easy to express the joy I was in, upon the unexpected hope of once more seeing my beloved country, and the dear pledges I left in it.”

― Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels

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“My mother was determined to make us independent. When I was four years old, she stopped the car a few miles from our house and made me find my own way home across the fields. I got hopelessly lost.”

― Richard Branson, Losing My Virginity

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“the upper world was all too strong, it called to him still, even down there, and he knew he must return to the larger stage. But it was good to think he had this to come back to; this place which was all his own, these things which were so glad...”

― Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

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“Hogwarts was the first and best home he had known. He and Voldemort and Snape, the abandoned boys, had all found home here.”

― J. K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

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“real adventures . . . do not happen to people who remain at home: they must be sought abroad.”

― James Joyce, Dubliners

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“your solitude will be a support and a home for you, even in the midst of very unfamiliar circumstances, and from it you will find all your paths.”

― Rainer Maria Rilke, Letters to a Young Poet

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“We certainly do not forget you as soon as you forget us. It is, perhaps, our fate rather than our merit. We cannot help ourselves. We live at home, quiet, confined, and our feelings prey upon us.”

― Jane Austen, Persuasion

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“When I speak of home, I speak of the place where—in default of a better—those I love are gathered together; and if that place were a gypsy's tent, or a barn, I should call it by the same good name notwithstanding.”

― Charles Dickens, Nicholas Nickleby

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