“It is my belief that everyone is a stranger as an individual and since everyone is a stranger, that is precisely the reason we cannot question someone else’s strangeness or otherness. It is that simple. We ourselves are strangers. Often even to ourselves… And while people have some kind of desperate desire to belong somewhere, as I see it, many people also have a perpetual desire to be outsiders.”

— András Petőcz

"It is good to be a stranger" http://www.hungarianpresence.ca/Culture/Literature/varnai-interview-e.cfm. <br class="br">Interview

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