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Our house was destroyed in 1943, and I moved the family to a cottage I owned before the war in the Bavarian Alps. This cottage was meant for a very few people, and at the end of the war, there were about 13 people in this very small house.

— Werner Heisenberg

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

As early as December 1945, I accompanied my wife and a few relatives in their return from evacuation in the countryside to Cologne, where over the years we settled down in a destroyed house.

— Heinrich Boll

I shared a room with my parents until I was 7, and I lived with my uncles and aunts and my cousins and my grandfather... so the house was always full of people.

— Dichen Lachman

In this year 1634, I purchased the moiety of thirteen houses in the Strand for five hundred and thirty pounds.

— William Lilly

I moved around a lot when I was a child; two of the houses I grew up in have totally disappeared. One was burnt in a riot, and the other was pulled down.

— Toyin Odutola

When I was nine years old, my family lost our home, and the six of us moved into my grandparents' converted garage.

— Becky G

Home wasn't so much a house as people, family.

— John Edgar Wideman

After having dispatched a meal, I went ashore, and found no habitation save a single house, and that without an occupant; we had no doubt that the people had fled in terror at our approach, as the house was completely furnished.

— Christopher Columbus

I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

— Ada Yonath

✗Opposing Perspectives

My family and I live in a wing of a Georgian mansion in East Sussex, which was built in the 1780s and fell into disrepair. It was rescued in the Seventies and carved into six terrace houses.

— Simon Toyne

I live in the house my great-grandfather moved to in 1865... I spent all my summers here as a kid haying with my grandfather, and it was my favorite place in the world.

— Donald Hall