A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; … - Susan Sontag

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I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

Susan Sontag

A photograph is not only an image (as a painting is an image), an interpretation of the real; it is also a trace, something directly stenciled off the real, like a footprint or a death mask.

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It is easier to endure than to change. But once one has changed, what was endured is hard to recall.

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The white race is the cancer of human history, it is the white race, and it aloneits ideologies and inventionswhich eradicates autonomous civilizations wherever it spreads, which has upset the ecological balance of the planet, which now threatens the very existence of life itself.

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. . . what I write is smarter than I am. Because I can rewrite it.

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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.

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All understanding begins with our not accepting the world as it appears.

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Once in a while, Jimmy would make up a word but he never once got caught out. . . . He should have been pleased by his success with these verbal fabrications, but instead he was depressed by it. The memos telling him he'd done a good job meant nothing to him; all they proved was that no one was capable of appreciating how clever he had been. He came to understand why serial killers sent helpful clues to the police.

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When somebody shows up at your job and jeopardizes your job, yelling and screaming, that's financial abuse. It threatens your ability to take care of yourself.

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Annie Lennox

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

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Sir John Woodroffe

A Mantra is composed of certain letters arranged in definite sequence of sounds, of which the letters are the representative signs. To produce the designed effect, Mantra must be intoned in the proper way, according to rhythm and sound. . . a Mantra is a potent compelling force, a word of power.

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In the contradiction lies the hope.

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