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“He made me think of home—perhaps home is not a place but simply an irrevocable condition.” James Baldwin, Giovanni's Room
“It is true, we shall be monsters, cut off from all the world; but on that account we shall be more attached to one another. Our lives will not be happy, but they will be harmless and free from the misery I now feel.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“We English have no very strong attachment to the soil, we can make ourselves at home in any part of the world, but the French, I think, have an attachment to their country which is almost a physical bond.” W. Somerset Maugham, The Painted Veil
“Only the children know what they are looking for . . . They waste their time over a rag doll and it becomes very important to them; and if anybody takes it away from them, they cry.” Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Little Prince
“I have a very old and very faithful attachment for dogs. I like them because they always forgive.” Albert Camus, The Fall
“You’re mine . . . Mine, as I’m yours. And if we die, we die. All men must die, Jon Snow. But first we’ll live.” George R. R. Martin, A Storm of Swords
“If you realize that all things change, there is nothing you will try to hold on to.” Lao Tzu, Tao Te Ching
“It was my temper to avoid a crowd and to attach myself fervently to a few.” Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
“Where people wish to attach, they should always be ignorant.” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Where people are really attached, poverty itself is wealth” Jane Austen, Northanger Abbey
“Thus, isness is the meaning — having freedom in its primary sense, not limited by attachments, confinements, partialization, complexities.” Bruce Lee, Tao of Jeet Kune Do

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