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like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as an art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power.
“To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.”
― Books and You
― Books and You
“Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek and find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it.”
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“The person, be it gentleman or lady, who has not pleasure in a good novel, must be intolerably stupid.”
― Northanger Abbey
― Northanger Abbey
“How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives.”
― The Writing Life
― The Writing Life
“I am against religion because it teaches us to be satisfied with not understanding the world.”
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