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"Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored."
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"Dogs get lost hundreds of times and no one ever notices it or sends an account of it to a scientific magazine."
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"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."

"One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man."

"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."

"The human imagination... has great difficulty in living strictly within the confines of a materialist practice or philosophy. It dreams, like a dog in its basket, of hares in the open."

"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."

"Post-modernism has cut off the present from all futures. The daily media add to this by cutting off the past. Which means that critical opinion is often orphaned in the present."

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