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I absorbed the changing locations of my earlier life without resistance. #2 | | |
Never have I regretted that as a child I was exposed to such powerful and contrasting impressions. #3 | | |
Every new place, no matter how exotic it seemed at first, won me over with its particular effect on me and its unforseeable ramifications #4 | | |
There was only one thing I felt bitter about: #5 | | |
I never got over leaving Zurich. #6 | | |
I was sixteen and I felt so deeply attached to the people and places, #7 | | |
the school, the land, the literature, #8 | | |
even Swiss German (which I had acquired despite my mother's tenacious resistance), that I never wanted to leave, #9 | | |
After just five years in Zurich, I felt, at my tender age, #10 | | |
that I should never go anywhere else, #11 | | |
that I should spend the rest of my life here, in greater and greater intellectual well-being. #12 | | |
