the venice they felt within themselves

Mark you, I realized there must be others. 

In that dark gondola floating by, at that wide window, even on the bridge from which, as we passed underneath, a figure peering down suddenly withdrew, I knew there must be others who, like myself, found themselves suddenly enchanted, not by the Venice they perceived, but by the Venice they felt within themselves. That uncelestial city from which no traveller returns...

/H

PS. För ett år sedan såhär års hade vi nyss kommit hem därifrån. Åh.

PS2. Citatet är ur Ganymede av Daphne du Maurier.