"No alien land in all the world has any deep, strong charm for me, but that one; no other land could so longingly and beseechingly haunt me sleeping and waking, through half a lifetime as that one has done. Other things leave me, but it abides, other things change, but it remains the same. For me its balmy airs are always blowing, its summer seas flashing in the sun; the pulsing of its surfbeat is in my ear; I can see its garlanded craigs, its leaping cascades, its plumy palms drowsing by the shore; its remote summits floating like islands about the cloud-rack; I can feel the spirit of its woodland solitude; I can hear the splash of its brooks; in my nostrils still lives the breath of flowers that perished twenty years ago. (by Mark Twain in the 1981 book "Hawaii invites you" by John Tsukano)"
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