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"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."
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"In moments of great uncertainty on my travels, I have always felt that something is protecting me, that I will come to no harm."
"Ani saw herself clearly in that moment, as a face in darkness gains sudden dimensions in a flash of lightning - a young girl, a silly thing, a lapdog, a broken mare."
"Like all great travellers, I have seen more than I remember, and remember more than I have seen."
"I get along with Australians really well. Everyone's usually really cool, and it's always a drag to leave."
"I'm basically for the whole year just traveling with three suitcases."
"Be a true traveller, don't be a temporary tourist."
"Everywhere I travel to, there is my home."
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"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."
"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."
"Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress."
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
"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."
"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."
"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."
"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."
"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."
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