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"I found myself serving a sentence of public denial from the very second the raid on my apartment happened."
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"If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears."

"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."

"Questions about her feelings, about what has been or might be going on in her soul are non of my business; they are the business of her conscience and belong to religion."

"It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy."

"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."

"The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door."

"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
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"There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo sapiens does, always has and always will."

"As soon as you forbid something, you make it extraordinarily appealing. You also bring shame in as a phenomenon."

"I know the families that I photograph extremely well, and I've known them for a very long time."

"The world is shrinking as we see more and more of it in the media, and the more we see of the world, the smaller we are, the more aware we are of how insignificant any one of us is."

"Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful."

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

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