"Art is History's nostalgia, it prefers a thatched roof to a concrete factory, and the huge church above a bleached village."

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Some people speak and sing and walk and sit and sleep and silence their homesickness, for a long time, and to no avail. Some say that over time homesickness loses its specific content, that it starts to smolder and only then becomes all-consuming, because it’s no longer focused on a concrete home. I am one of the people who say that.

— Herta Muller