The minute you start saying something—‘Ah, how beautiful! We must photograph it!’—you are already close to the view of the person who thinks that everything that is not photographed is lost, as if it had never existed, and that therefore, in order really to live, you must photograph as much as you can, and to photograph as much as you can you must either live in the most photographable way possible or else consider photographable every moment of your life. The first course leads to stupidity, the second to madness.” “You’re the one who’s mad and stupid,” his friends would say to him, “and a
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