Sophie Ristelhueber quotes
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“I have these obsessions that I do not completely understand, with the deep mark, with the ruptured surface, with scars and traces, traces that human beings are leaving on the earth. It is not a comment on the environment... it is metaphysical.”
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“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.”
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“We have at our disposal modern techniques for seeing everything, apprehending everything, yet we see nothing.”
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“What prompted me to make these pictures [of bomb-cratered roads] was the impression that the ground was ripped by the shock, that it was swallowing itself.”
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“Earth and high heaven are fixed of old and founded strong.”
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“As barbaric is we are, it's a miracle we haven't blown ourselves off the face of the earth so far.”
Source : Interview with Christopher Kompanek, www.avclub.com. March 23, 2012.
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“We have the ability to provide quality education to every child on earth right now.”
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“All of us heal in time. The strongest are born again. We only keep the scars we choose to keep.”
Source : "Enchanted". Book by Alethea Kontis, 2012.
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Source : Anne Bishop (2007). “Heir to the Shadows: The Black Jewels Trilogy 2”, p.285, Penguin
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