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"Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech."
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"No thought, no mind, no choice - just being silent, rooted in yourself."
"He who sleeps in continual noise is wakened by silence."
"If there's a silence in a room I'll try to fill it as soon as humanly possible."
"When we become silent, we become whole. And when we become whole, we become holy."
"And the silence comes... all people keep silence just to hear the story..."
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"Making social comment is an artificial place for an artist to start from. If an artist is touched by some social condition, what the artist creates will reflect that, but you can't force it."
"To me, literature is a calling, even a kind of salvation. It connects me with an enterprise that is over 2,000 years old. What do we have from the past? Art and thought. That's what lasts. That's what continues to feed people and give them an idea of something better."
"A large part of the popularity and persuasiveness of psychology comes from its being a sublimated spiritualism: a secular, ostensibly scientific way of affirming the primacy of spirit over matter."
"With time, many staged photographs turn back into historical evidence, albeit of an impure kind - like most historical evidence."
"I have always been full of lust - as I am now - but I have always been placing conceptual obstacles in my own path."
"All memory is individual, unreproducible - it dies with each person. What is called collective memory is not a remembering but a stipulating: that this is important, and this is the story about how it happened, with the pictures that lock the story in our minds."
"Recently, photography has become almost as widely practiced an amusement as sex and dancing " which means that, like every mass art form, photography is not practiced by most people as art. It is mainly a social rite, a defense against anxiety, and a tool of power."
"So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful."
"Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone."
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