Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
John Berger
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- 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.
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