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Henri Cartier-Bresson called the taking of a good photograph a decisive moment. ‘Your eye must see a composition or an expression that life itself offers you, and you must know with intuition when to click the camera,’
These days we can take hundreds pf photos and store many thousands on our mobile phones. So do we really need these decisive moments anymore? Or is it just a case of click and hope, and then never look at your photos again.
“My life has been full of terrible misfortunes most of which never happened.”
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“That is what capitalism is—a version of feudalism in which capital replaces land, and business leaders replace kings. But the hierarchy remains. And so we still hand over our lives’ labor, under duress, to feed rulers who do no real work.”
― Blue Mars
― Blue Mars
“The idea that each corporation can be a feudal monarchy and yet behave in its corporate action like a democratic citizen concerned for the world we live in is one of the great absurdities of our time—”
― Antarctica
― Antarctica
“That's libertarians for you — anarchists who want police protection from their slaves.”
― Green Mars
― Green Mars
“An excess of reason is itself a form of madness”
― Forty Signs of Rain
― Forty Signs of Rain
Mathew’s 2025 Year in Books
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