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The instinctive urge to go back home after a period of absence comes to young children and to old men. Not only is some comfort expected there, but also a kind of safety, a form of security. It might even be called a private refuge from the all-too-public world.

-- Notebooks Category 13: Human Experience > Chapter 3 : Youth and Age > # 133