"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."

God, Burden, Forget, Memory

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"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."

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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time."

Experience, Time

"The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget."

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"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."

Dogs, Self

"Ours is the century of enforced travel of disappearances. The century of people helplessly seeing others, who were close to them, disappear over the horizon."

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"That we find a crystal or a poppy beautiful means that we are less alone, that we are more deeply inserted into existence than the course of a single life would lead us to believe."

Life, Existence

"Unlike any other visual image, a photograph is not a rendering, an imitation or an interpretation of its subject, but actually a trace of it. No painting or drawing, however naturalist, belongs to its subject in the way that a photograph does."

Photography, Imitation, Painting

"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."

Death, Time, Thought, Character

"Publicity is the life of this culture - in so far as without publicity capitalism could not survive - and at the same time publicity is its dream."

Life, Time, Dream, Capitalism

"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."

Time, Invention, Light, Photography

"Nothing in the nature around us is evil. This needs to be repeated since one of the human ways of talking oneself into inhuman acts is to cite the supposed cruelty of nature."

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"I know nothing of God or the Devil. I have never seen a vision nor learned a secret that would damn or save my soul."

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"Conscience is God present in man."

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"God has given you one face, and you make yourself another."

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"I gave in, and admitted that God was God."

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"It is quite true, as some poets said, that the God who created man must have had a sinister sense of humor, creating him a reasonable being, yet forcing him to take this ridiculous posture, and driving him with blind craving for this ridiculous performance."

David Herbert Lawrence, English Writer

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"If God did not exist, it would be necessary to invent Him."

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