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"The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is."
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"Because you're not what I would have you be, I blind myself to who, in truth, you are."

"A priest is he who lives solely in the realm of the invisible, for whom all that is visible has only the truth of an allegory."

"What then in the last resort are the truths of mankind? They are the irrefutable errors of mankind."
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"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."


"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."


"Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art."


"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."


"The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) and inflict stigma is always worth challenging, and it does seem to have more limited credibility in the modern world, among people willing to be modern - the process is under surveillance now. With this illness, one that elicits so much guilt and shame, the effort to detach it from these meanings, these metaphors, seems particularly liberating, even consoling. But the metaphors cannot be distanced just by abstaining from them. They have to be exposed, criticized, belabored, used up."
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