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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.”
― On Photography
― On Photography
“Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.”
― The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
― The Will to Believe : and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy
“All photographs are memento mori. To take a photograph is to participate in another person’s (or thing’s) mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time’s relentless melt.”
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“Civilised life, you know, is based on a huge number of illusions in which we all collaborate willingly. The trouble is we forget after a while that they are illusions and we are deeply shocked when reality is torn down around us.”
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“We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.”
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Jake’s 2025 Year in Books
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Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Comics, Crime, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, neuroscience, futurism, disability-studies, mental-health, mental-illness, medicine, and grad-school
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