Jiang says city life and cosmopolitan exposure usually make people more creative, but Dante's case shows that travel without rooted attachment can also become spiritually empty.
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"live in the city you're gonna be much more creative than you think you're gonna be more creative than you if you live in..."
"he may leave points physically but even when he leaves florence he still remembers florence he still um is nostalgic for lord he still..."
"...of enemy. Enemy just means a loss of sense of cultural rootedness. Right? As things change, you don't know how to adapt to the..."
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