Jacques

“They may be nothing more than scraps of paper, but they capture something profound. Light and wind and air, the tenderness or joy of the photographer, the bashfulness or pleasure of the subject. You have to guard these things forever in your heart. That’s why photographs are taken in the first place.”
― Yōko Ogawa, The Memory Police

“That was but a prelude; where they burn books, they will ultimately burn people as well.”
― Heinrich Heine,

“It is the ability of a person to bring a reaction in us that gives us a relationship with them, and for the time they do that they have a livingness to them.”
― Cynan Jones, The Dig

“Perhaps one did not want to be loved so much as to be understood.”
― George Orwell, 1984