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“That we've broken their statues, that we've driven them out of their temples, doesn't mean at all that the gods are dead. O land of Ionia, they're still in love with you, their souls still keep your memory.”

Mean Stills Soul Memories Land Love You Broken Driven Temples Statues Our Memories Still Love You Still In Love

Book:Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

Source: Selected Poems by C.P. Cavafy

“I know thou art gone to the home of thy rest-- Then why should my soul be so sad? I know thou art gone where the weary are blest, And the mourner looks up, and is glad; I know thou hast drank of the Lethe that flows In a land where they do not forget, That sheds over memory only repose, And takes from it only regret.”

Knows Should Looks Art Soul Home Death Memories Forget Gone Land Regret Flow Glad My Soul Look Up Shed Weary Drank Repose So Sad Lethe

Author:Thomas Kibble Hervey

“What, then, is that incalculable feeling that deprives the mind of the sleep necessary to life? A world that can be explained even with bad reasons is a familiar world. But, on the other hand, in a universe suddenly divested of illusions and lights, man feels an alien, a stranger. His exile is without remedy since he is deprived of the memory of a lost home or the hope of a promised land. This divorce between man and his life, the actor and his setting, is properly the feeling of absurdity.”

Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays

“My favorite memories growing up in North Carolina were hunting and fishing with my father and brothers. There, I developed a deep appreciation for protecting land and waterways. There, I learned outdoorsmanship.”

Father Memories Growing Up Growing Land Brother My Favorite Appreciation Fishing Hunting Carolina North Carolina Hunting And Fishing Father And Brother Favorite Memories

Author:Louis Bacon

“Poland remains undzer heym, our home, no matter how bitter the memories, how filled with disappointment and betrayal. Amerike iz goles, America is exile, a foreign land in which I speak a foreign tongue. But I will never live in Poland. I do not want to, though I do not see an end to the mourning.”

Source: Dreams of an Insomniac: Jewish Feminist Essays, Speeches, and Diatribes