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Exile
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Everyone must come out of his Exile in his own way.
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It is, therefore, a great source of virtue for the practiced mind to learn, bit by bit, first to change about in visible and transitory things, so that afterwards it may be possible to leave them behind altogether. The man who finds his homeland sweet is still a tender beginner; he to whom every soil is as his native one is already strong; but he is perfect to whom the entire world is as a foreign land. The tender soul has fixed his love on one spot in the world; the strong man has extended his
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― The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts
― The Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts
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