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"Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our 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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all."
"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."
"What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time."
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"You can wipe out your opponents. But if you do it unjustly you become eligible for being wiped out yourself."
"And they write innumerable books; being too vain and distracted for silence: seeking every one after his own elevation, and dodging his emptiness."
"There is more pleasure in loving than in being beloved."
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