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“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― Susan Sontag, On Photography

“The less you eat, drink and read books; the less you go to the theatre, the dance hall, the public house; the less you think, love, theorize, sing, paint, fence, etc., the more you save-the greater becomes your treasure which neither moths nor dust will devour-your capital. The less you are, the more you have; the less you express your own life, the greater is your alienated life-the greater is the store of your estranged being.”
― Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels

“If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, Infinite. For man has closed himself up, till he sees all things thro' narrow chinks of his cavern.”
― William Blake, The Marriage of Heaven and Hell

“Why should you love him whom the world hates so?
Because he love me more than all the world.”
― Christopher Marlowe

“Why should you love him whom the world hates so?"
"Because he loves me more than all the world”
― Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

“I know the next news that they bring
Will be my death; and welcome shall it be:
To wretched men death is felicity.”
― Christopher Marlowe, Edward II

“But what are kings, when regiment is gone,
But perfect shadows in a sunshine day?”
― Christopher Marlowe, Edward II