Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People leave when life becomes untenable where they are.
Coming back to your native land after an absence of many years is a surprisingly unsettling business, a little like waking from a long coma. Time, you discover, has wrought changes that leave you feeling mildly foolish and out of touch.
All changes, even the most longed for, have their melancholy; for what we leave behind us is a part of ourselves; we must die to one life before we can enter another.
The further you go in life, the more you realize what you're going to leave this Earth.
The fact is that you don't want to be away forever, but you want to lead a normal life.
If you travel in time and space, most of the people you know and love will eventually be gone. But you'll also be able to go and find them again.
I believe that before anybody makes the journey to the other side, we have to know on a soul level that we are leaving, whether it's an accident or illness, and we prepare ourselves to a certain degree that we won't be there in the future.
Circumstances in life often take us places that we never intended to go. We visit some places of beauty, others of pain and desolation.
A great emigration necessarily implies unhappiness of some kind or other in the country that is deserted.
When I disappear, I will disappear; there'll be nothing left.
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