“When those who name dead people have gone, there just remains the calmness of foreign cemeteries, in which nothing appears familiar and nothing frightens you.”

Meaning

This feels like a meditation on distance, memory, and the strange peace of places stripped of personal meaning. It can be read as saying that foreign cemeteries stop being frightening because nothing there belongs to the speaker, so grief gives way to stillness. It lands when a person finds calm in an unfamiliar place, especially after losing the emotional weight of home and names.

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Originally said in English.

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