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“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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“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
“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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