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he wished he could have roots spreading under every inch of his lost soil, his beloved lost home, th...

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Salman RushdieTwo Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights

She was smart and terribly determined, this girl-her will was pure steel, through and through-but sh...

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He decided that we suffer from great temporal homesickness for the decade we were born in.

There are many sadnesses in the hearts of men who are far away from their countries.

She thought it was strange that the mere sensation of savouring the prospect of something could make...

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Sometimes John had recorded new compositions, or lines from his new poems. Sometimes he'd just recor...

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...not to look back or feel sad about things, that home is wherever I am.

I'm always telling myself I don't have many feelings. Even when something does affect me I'm only mo...

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He thought that he was sick in his heart if you could be sick in that place.

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James JoyceA Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

Homesickness is absolutely nothing. Fifty percent of the people in the world are homesick all the ti...

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John CheeverThe Brigadier and the Golf Widow

I used to think it was mere homesickness, then I started getting it at home.

It will no longer be necessary to leave one's own home in order to find work in the surrounding dist...

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