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“Life is but a day;
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.”
― The Complete Poems
A fragile dew-drop on its perilous way
From a tree’s summit.”
― The Complete Poems
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
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“She wanted none of those days to end, and it was always with disappointment that she watched the darkness stride forward. ”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Be faithful to that which exists within yourself.”
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“It seemed an advantage to be traveling alone. Our responses to the world are crucially moulded by the company we keep, for we temper our curiosity to fit in with the expectations of others...Being closely observed by a companion can also inhibit our observation of others; then, too, we may become caught up in adjusting ourselves to the companion's questions and remarks, or feel the need to make ourselves seem more normal than is good for our curiosity.”
― The Art of Travel
― The Art of Travel
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