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She Wore Only White

by Dörthe Binkert · 2007

At the turn of the twentieth century, five thousand people a day arrived at New York’s Ellis Island, their journeys to America signifying a new beginning. But the ocean crossing also has a deeper symbolic meaning: there… more

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Sometimes people help others without having any idea they are doing it.
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I would like to participate in the huge, infinite universe.
Some things in life you have to accept—no one knows that better than you do—but you don't have to be fatalistic about it. The art lies most often," he smiled, "in being able to distinguish between what you have to accept and what you don't.
Each person is alone with his pain, even when others share the same fate.
Love is one thing; the real world something else entirely.
We as human beings have an obligation to face up to the dreams that we keep hidden deep within ourselves. Only what we do out of love is successful in the long run. But first we have to figure out what it is that we love.
There are some things that you have to do alone.
We all have dreams, but we're better off burying them.
You always have to pay. I am not who I would like to be. I am a wife and the mother of three children, nothing more.
There isn't any hurry if you have found what you have spent your life looking for.
I am of the opinion that every person, whether man or woman, discovers his own talents and aptitudes and that we as human beings have an obligation to face up to the dreams that we keep hidden deep within ourselves.
She had entered it like a shooting star flashing across the night sky—and she’d evaporate just as quickly.

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At the turn of the twentieth century, five thousand people a day arrived at New York’s Ellis Island, their journeys to America signifying a new beginning. But the ocean crossing also has a deeper symbolic meaning: there comes a time for us all when we find ourselves afloat, between phases of our lives, where we say goodbye to our past and move on to new horizons. For Valentina Meyer, harboring a deep secret of tremendous guilt and pain drives her to board a trans-Atlantic voyage as a stowaway, searching desperately for a new life on a distant shore. Accompanying her is a varied cast of eccentric and unique individuals, each in search of a new and better life. Finding solace—even love—in the companionship of their fellow guests, their arrival in America puts an abrupt end to their camaraderie as Valentina’s future is immediately put in jeopardy. A probing, affecting exploration of the h

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2007
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