We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. And there are things in us that we can find again only by going back there.

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We leave something of ourselves behind when we leave a place, we stay there, even though we go away. This is the only way to know where we’ve been. That’s how it feels when we come back, and that’s how it should feel when we go.

Source: Night Train To Lisbon

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