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““The recent Dictionary of Occupational Titles lists over twenty thousand specialized professions in America; being a millionaire is not one of them.””

Jerzy Kosiński

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Travel gives me the opportunity to walk through the sectors of cities where one can clearly see the passage of time.

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Going around under an umbrella interferes with one's looking up at the sky.

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“Against the background of bland colors he projected an unfadable blackness. In a world of men with harrowed faces, with smashed eyes, bloody, bruised and disfigured limbs, among the fetid, broken human bodies, of which I had already seen so many, he seemed an example of neat perfection that could not be sullied: the smooth, polished skin of his face,…

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I always have a sense of trembling, but so does a compass, after all.

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