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“It was always the becoming he dreamed of, never the being.”
― This Side of Paradise
― This Side of Paradise
“Thus God knows the world, because He conceived it in His mind, as if from the outside, before it was created, and we do not know its rule, because we live inside it, having found it already made.”
― The Name of the Rose
― The Name of the Rose
“To photograph people is to violate them, by seeing them as they never see themselves, by having knowledge of them that they can never have; it turns people into objects that can be symbolically possessed. Just as a camera is a sublimation of the gun, to photograph someone is a subliminal murder - a soft murder, appropriate to a sad, frightened time.”
― On Photography
― On Photography
“Make no mistake, those who write long books have nothing to say.
Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”
― House of Leaves
Of course those who write short books have even less to say.”
― House of Leaves
“I find that, as a rule, when a thing is a wonder to us it is not because of what we see in it, but because of what others have seen in it. We get almost all our wonders at second hand.”
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
― Following the Equator: A Journey Around the World
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