“It was not even the wish for that change of place that always flatters us with the change of circumstance, as if we did not carry our own hearts with us wherever we go and might not therefore be sure that an innate and eroding ulcer must be our companion from the Pole to the Equator.”

“It was not even the wish for that change of place that always flatters us with the change of circumstance, as if we did not carry our own hearts with us wherever we go and might not therefore be sure that an innate and eroding ulcer must be our companion from the Pole to the Equator.”

— Charles Maturin