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Quote by Ralph Waldo Emerson

“Good bye, proud world! I'm going home; Thou art not my friend, and I'm not thine”

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American essayist, poet, and philosopher. Born on May 25, 1803, and died on April 27, 1882. Known for his transcendentalist philosophy, his works have had a profound impact on literature and the intellectual world. more

“Are we running away from home?” I asked, giving voice to the question that had been on my mind for two days, ever since the lady at the Wok On restaurant asked where we were from and my mother lied. My mother had laughed. I couldn’t see her face, but her laugh I could always conjure—rich, ringing, like bells calling you to a wedding. “No, silly goose. You can’t run away from home. It’s not home if you want to run away from it.” She paused to brush a strand of hair from my face. “You can only run away from a house. Home is something you run toward.”

Home Running Away

Book:Ghost Flower

Source: Ghost Flower

“To teach how to live without certainty, and yet without being paralyzed by hesitation, is perhaps the chief thing that philosophy, in our age, can still do for those who study it.”

Philosophy Truth

Book:A History of Western Philosophy

Source: A History of Western Philosophy

“I may stay here in this town another day or I may go on to another town. No one knows where I am. I am taking this bath in life, as you see, and when I have had enough of it I shall go home feeling refreshed.”

Home Aloneness Wanderlust

Book:Death in the Woods and Other Stories

Source: Death in the Woods and Other Stories

“Aryami Bose's home had been closed up for years, inhabited only by books and paintings, but the spectre of thousands of memories imprisoned between its walls still permeated the house.”

Home House Memories Books Walls Paintings Spectre Imprisoned Permeate

Book:The Midnight Palace

Source: The Midnight Palace

“She pondered the arrangements of the paintings on a wall like a writer pondered commas.”

Home Mother

Book:The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

Source: The Discomfort Zone: A Personal History

“Homes should mean something to us humans. They are a basic instinct. A home, with a life that centers only on food and sleep, is not really a home, it's a house. Beauty and graciousness, joy of living, being used in every part, these are the things that make a house a home. (chapter header quote from Popular Home Decorations, 1940)”

Home

Book:Keeping the House

Source: Keeping the House

“طفولتنا ھي الوطن”

Home Childhood

Book:El escritor y sus fantasmas

Source: El escritor y sus fantasmas

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