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A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.

G.K. Chesterton
A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life and find solace in fantasy.

Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of...

C. S. Lewis On Stories: And...
Hence the uneasiness which they arouse in those who, for whatever reason, wish to keep us wholly imprisoned in the immediate conflict. That perhaps is why people are so ready with the charge of "escape." I never fully understood it till my friend Professor Tolkien asked me the very simple question, "What class of men would you expect to be most preoccupied with, and hostile to, the idea of escape?" and gave the obvious answer: jailers.

A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.

M.B. Dallocchio The Desert...
A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.

And I had OASIS. My life wasn’t that bad after all. Or at least that’s what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to ease the loneliness I had found myself living in.

Ernest Cline Ready Player One
And I had OASIS. My life wasn’t that bad after all. Or at least that’s what I kept telling myself, in a vain attempt to ease the loneliness I had found myself living in.

For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Gustave Flaubert Madame Bovary
For six months, then, Emma, at fifteen years of age, made her hands dirty with books from old lending libraries.

Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own...

J. Maarten Troost Getting Stoned...
Paradise was always over there, a day's sail away. But it's a funny thing, escapism. You can go far and wide and you can keep moving on and on through places and years, but you never escape your own life. I, finally, knew where my life belonged. Home.
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