Yes, you need a passport to prove to the world that you exist. The people at passport control, they cannot look at you and see you are a person. No! They have to look at a little photograph of you. Then they believe you exist.

Jeffrey Eugenides
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Passport control is the name for the people who look at your passport and see you are a person. But, they have to look at a little photograph of you, not the real you.

Source: The Marriage Plot

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