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"The body is an instrument, the mind its function, the witness and reward of its operation."

"I sink down into my body as into a swamp, fenland, where only I know the footing. I'm a cloud, congealed around a central object, the shape of a pear, which is hard and more real than I am and glows red within its translucent wrapping. Inside it is a space, huge as the sky at night and dark and curved like that, though black-red rather than black."

"The educated do not share a common body of information, but a common state of mind."

"The eyes like sentinel occupy the highest place in the body."

"The body is not a reliable friend."
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"But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another."

"In fact, I don't believe I'm guilty of any crimes, but I've always been drawn to and fascinated by physical, sexual and psychological change, and there's an erotic aspect to that."

"I'm guilty of extraordinary naivete, I suppose. But it's a naivete that I really don't want to abandon, not even now."

"When I started doing my work years ago, I had doubts as to whether the informed-consent question was answerable."

"The images I like best are parts of series that I've started, in some cases, with the pregnancies of the mothers of the children in question, and I continue that series right on through the birth of children to the child that resulted from that first pregnancy."

"There are photographs that I don't take now that I previously would have taken without any thought at all as to any misinterpretations."

"What pedophiles and people who have sexual desires on children lose sight of to a terrible, terrible degree - a devastating degree - is that their victims are real people who will suffer forever whatever abuses are perpetrated on them."
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