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"Puenta Arenas! With my back against a fountain, I watch old women coming to draw water; of their drama I shall know nothing but these servant gestures. A child, his head against the wall behind him, is weeping silently; nothing of him will remain in my memory but a beautiful child for ever inconsolable. I am an outsider. I know nothing. I cannot entire their Empires."

"[T]here is only one true form of wealth, that of human contact. When we work merely for material gain, we build our own prison. We enclose ourselves in isolation; our coins turn to ashes and buy nothing worth living for."

"'Sometimes the storms and the fog and the snow will get you down. But think of all those who have been through it before you, and just tell yourself: 'They did it, so it can be done again.'"