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“ I shall say that, if you save the letters of your youth, you will be able to “sing a yearning.” It seems that our sailors give this name to songs about the land that are sung only at sea. It would be hard to find a more poetic expression of nostalgia.
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Machado de Assis, Epitaph of a Small Winner (1881)

(theshipthatflew)


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