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Going Away Quotes - Page 2

You go away for a long time and return a different person - you never come all the way back.

Paul Theroux (2004). “Dark Star Safari: Overland from Cairo to Capetown”, p.470, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

There is a kind of magicness about going far away and then coming back all changed.

Kate Douglas Wiggin (2016). “REBECCA OF SUNNYBROOK FARM & NEW CHRONICLES OF REBECCA (Children’s Book Classics): Adventure Novels”, p.357, e-artnow

There is no coming toward it or going away from it; it is, and you are it.

Alan Watts (2003). “Become what You are”, p.11, Shambhala Publications

It may be that the satisfaction I need depends on my going away, so that when I've gone and come back, I'll find it at home.

"The Essential Rumi". Book translated by Coleman Barks with John Moyne, A. J. Arberry and Reynold Nicholson. Chapter 20: "In Baghdad, Dreaming of Cairo: More Teaching Stories", p. 206, 1995.