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”我总觉得有些人没有出生在正确的地方。偶然的命运将他们丢到特定的环境里，但他们总是对某个不知在何处的家乡念念不忘。他们是生身之地的过客，从孩提时代就熟悉的林荫小径，或者曾在其中玩耍过的热闹街道，都无非是人生路上的驿站。他们始终把亲友视如陌路，对生平仅见的环境毫无感情。也许正是这种疏离感推动他们远走高飞，去寻找某种永恒的东西，某片能让他们眷恋的土地。也许正是某种藏得很深的寻根意识，敦促这些天涯游子重返他们的祖先在湮远的太初便已离开的故地。有时候，人会偶然造访某个地方，却神秘地感到这里就是他的归宿。这里就是他朝思暮想的故乡，尽管周边的环境他从未见过，尽管当地的居民他素未谋面，他却愿意安顿下来，仿佛这些都是他生来便已熟知的。在这里他的心终于不再躁动。“
月亮与六便士 第五十章
“I have an idea that some men are born out of their due place. Accident has cast them amid certain surroundings, but they have always a nostalgia for a home they know not. They are strangers in their birthplace, and the leafy lanes they have known from childhood or the populous streets in which they have played, remain but a place of passage. They may spend their whole lives aliens among their kindred and remain aloof among the only scenes they have ever known. Perhaps it is this sense of strangeness that sends men far and wide in the search for something permanent, to which they may attach themselves. Perhaps some deep-rooted atavism urges the wanderer back to lands which his ancestors left in the dim beginnings of history. Sometimes a man hits upon a place to which he mysteriously feels that he belongs. Here is the home he sought, and he will settle amid scenes that he has never seen before, among men he has never known, as though they were familiar to him from his birth. Here at last he finds rest.
Chapter L, The Moon and Sixpence
“Different paths can be the same journey.“ And I would like to share my paths with you.