"Home is not where you were born; home is where all your attempts to escape cease."
"The calendar has a magic that makes us imagine a memory can be resurrected and revived, but nothing returns."
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Source: Naguib Mahfouz (2016). “Palace of Desire: The Cairo Trilogy”, p.19, Anchor
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