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The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.

Marguerite Yourcenar
Book, School, Hadrian
Marguerite Yourcenar (1954). “Memoirs of Hadrian”, New York, Farrar
The true birthplace is that wherein for the first time one looks intelligently upon oneself; my first homelands have been books, and to a lesser degree schools.