He who travels much has this advantage over others — that the things he remembers soon become remote, so that in a short time they acquire the vague and poetical quality which is only given to other things by time. He who has not traveled at all has this disadvantage — that all his memories are of things present somewhere, since the places with which all his memories are concerned are present. Giacomo Leopardi
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