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"It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless."
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"Let each person decide his or her fate."
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Personal Development
"Beauty, love with truth, that is all there is."
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Personal Development
"Can any man sacrifice is life for his fellow man?"
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Personal Development
"Life cannot be exchange for anything."
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Personal Development
"Beauty is the brightness of being."
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Personal Development
"There are more things in heaven and earth...than are dreamt of by your philosophy."
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"Perhaps, if I use my reason in good faith, I may suceed in discovering some ray of probability to lighten me in the dark night of nature. And if this faint dawn which I seek does not come to me, I shall be consoled to think that my ignorance is invincible; that knowledge which is forbidden me is assuredly useless to me; and that the great Being will not punish me for having sought a knowledge of him and failed to obtain it."
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Personal Development
"Be life."
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Personal Development
"God takes the weak and makes them strong. He takes the vile and makes them clean. He takes the worthless and makes them worthwhile. He takes the sinful and makes them sinless."
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"Memory is the faculty of absolution. Men developed memories to ease their disquiet over things they did as men. The deep past is the only innocence and therefore necessary to retain."
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"The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means."
Art
"Lying is an elementary means of self-defense."
Deception
"Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art."
Art
"My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything."
Creativity
"As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure."
People
"Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics."
Society
"The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities."
History
"It is a view of suffering, of the pain of others, that is rooted in religious thinking, which links pain to sacrifice, sacrifice to exaltation - a view that could not be more alien to a modern sensibility, which regards suffering as something that is a mistake or an accident or a crime. Something to be fixed. Something to be refused. Something that makes one feel powerless."
Philosophy
"To take a picture is to have an interest in things as they are, in the status quo remaining unchanged, to be in complicity with whatever makes a subject interesting, worth photographing-including, when that is the interest, another person's pain or misfortune."
Art
"As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible."
Philosophy
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