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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
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"It [discovering Finnish] was like discovering a wine-cellar filled with bottles of amazing wine of a kind and flavour never tasted before. It quite intoxicated me."
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"She picked up the stout and took a sip. It slid down her throat like silk."
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"Not everyone can experience what other people can... That's why movies come out... films and books... and short stories and novels..."
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"Our experiences are the building blocks of the future hewn out of the granite of the present."
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"Life wants you to touch, taste and see the grandeur of the world's unfathomable variety."
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"There is a huge difference between learning about truth and experiencing truth. Touch the source."
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"Travel with the wit of an adult, and the wonder of a child."
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"It is not how long the music last but how much we enjoy."
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"When the reality looks extraordinarily unreal, you must know that you are in an extraordinarily beautiful place!"
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"All day long, one continues to suffer sweet or bitter fruits. This life has been attained for the purpose of experiencing!"
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"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."
God

"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."
Home

"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."
Life

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
Time

"Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion."
Being

"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."
Photography

"When we read a story, we inhabit it. The covers of the book are like a roof and four walls. What is to happen next will take place within the four walls of the story. And this is possible because the story's voice makes everything its own."
Voice

"The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying."
Dying

"The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich."
Poverty

"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
Dogs
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