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No matter how careful we are, we all leave behind little bits of ourselves as we go about our lives.
Time is a great healer. It just flows on all of its own accord.”
A heart has no shape, no limits. That’s why you can put almost any kind of thing in it, why it can hold so much. It’s much like your memory, in that sense.”
“They may be nothing more than scraps of paper, but they capture something profound. Light and wind and air, the tenderness or joy of the photographer, the bashfulness or pleasure of the subject. You have to guard these things forever in your heart. That’s why photographs are taken in the first place.”
What a photograph is and why we take and keep them
“I remember hearing a saying long ago: ‘Men who start by burning books end by burning other men,’
“You have to stop worrying about things like that. The disappearances are beyond our control. They have nothing to do with us. We’re all going to die anyway, someday, so what’s the difference? We simply have to leave things to fate.”
