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A Journey, After All, Neither Begins In The Instant We Set Out, Nor Ends When We Have Reached Our Door Step Once Again. It Starts Much Earlier And Is Really Never Over, Because The Film Of Memory Continues Running On Inside Of Us Long After We Have Come To A Physical Standstill. Indeed, There Exists Something Like A Contagion Of Travel, And The Disease Is Essentially Incurable.

First You Destroy Those Who Create Values. Then You Destroy Those Who Know What The Values Are, And Who Also Know That Those Destroyed Before Were In Fact The Creators Of Values. But Real Barbarism Begins When No One Can Any Longer Judge Or Know That What He Does Is Barbaric.

Photographing Expresses Human Desire To Preserve Passing Time. It Is Like A Man Struggling With Time That Elapses, And In General - A Desire To Preserve Oneself.

In The Russian Experience, Although The Russian State Is Oppressive, It Is Their State, It Is Part Of Their Fabric, And So The Relation Between Russian Citizens And Their State Is Complicated.

There Are Several Reasons Why Russians View The Oppressive State Positively. First, In The Russian Orthodox Religion, There Is An Understanding Of Authority As Something Sent By God.