"...everything around us, dead or alive, in the eyes of a crazy photographer mysteriously takes on many variations, so that a seemingly dead object comes to life through light or by its surroundings... To capture some of this - I suppose that's lyricism."

-- Josef Sudek

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“If individuals can be born again, why can't cities, made up of many individuals, be born again?”

Source : C. Peter Wagner (2006). “The Church in the Workplace: How God's People Can Transform Society”, p.43, Gospel Light Publications
“I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My family was nonplussed about me learning such an odd, ugly language and, though of course too sophisticated to say it, the language of the enemy. But I liked the sticklebrick nature of it, building long supple words by putting short ones together. Things could be brought into being that had no name in English - Weltanschauung, Schadenfreude, sippenhaft, Sonderweg, Scheissfreundlichkeit, VergangenheitsbewÃ¤ltigung.”

Source : Anna Funder (2011). “Stasiland: Stories From Behind The Berlin Wall”, p.10, Granta Books
“I suppose in our contemporary lives, our cumulative e-mails might constitute a kind of diary: that informal, moment-by-moment description of life as it goes by. . As I think of those notes now - what I wrote, what I said - it seems to me they danced across the surface just as my grandmother's diaries did - Anais Nin she wasn't, and I wasn't, either. Who is? Not even Anais Nin.”
“You cannot fix what you will not face.”
“I've been accused over the years of being close to players, but if something needs to be written, I've tried my best to write it and write it in a way that is fair to whoever I'm writing about and is fair to all of my readers.”
“Older patients who live alone can become depressed.”
“The lower you are in the hierarchy the worse your health, the higher you are, the better your health.”
“Eating is one of the great beauties in life. One of my favorite recreations... eating with friends, the service, the ambience.”

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