"My real interest is traveling the world's tormented places and revealing the scars and the traces on the ground. I am dedicated to the earth."

-- Sophie Ristelhueber

#Real Quotes #World Quotes #Earth Quotes

“Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.”
“Pleasure is the most real good in this life.”
“Love is the opposite of power. That's why we fear it so much.”

Source : Gregory David Roberts (2004). “Shantaram: A Novel”, p.39, Macmillan
“Growing up, I had an insane crush on Neil Tennant of the Pet Shop Boys.”

Source : Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 29, 2008.
“I don't think I can ever escape from music.”
“It's easy to love the snow because at the end of every snowstorm it's as if the world has started over. There is no dirt, no footprints, just a layer of seamless, indiscriminate nature connecting everything to everything else. Isn't that the amazing thing about the natural world? You can tear it down, you can drill holes in it, you can ignore its power with all your might, but one morning you wake up and it has selflessly given despite all of our abuse. I think I'll make a snowman.”
“Shibuya is a trendy part of Tokyo where young people come to meet and have a good time.”

Source : "Japan's booming drug culture" by Rebecca MacKinnon, www.cnn.com. January 2, 2003.
“You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.”

Source : Peter Ackroyd (2001). “The Collection”, Random House Uk Limited

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