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“Looking from outside into an open window one never sees as much as when one looks through a closed window. There is nothing more profound, more mysterious, more pregnant, more insidious, more dazzling than a window lighted by a single candle. What one can see out in the sunlight is always less interesting than what goes on behind a windowpane. In that black or luminous square life lives, life dreams, life suffers.”
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“Wedged as we are between two eternities of idleness, there is no excuse for being idle now.”
― Little Wilson and Big God
― Little Wilson and Big God
“One does not deceive oneself about the consequences of one's acts; one deceives oneself about the ease with which one can live with those consequences.”
― Augustus
― Augustus
“If the photographers are soul-thieves, whose soul is being stolen in a photograph of the night sky? The soul of the last one to go to bed and the soul of the first one to rise in the morning, perhaps? Photography is a black art like alchemy. It turns matter into spirit and spirit into matter. Still, there are moments when looking at a photograph of a night sky we have a hunch what the word soul means, what the word infinity encompasses.”
― The Life of Images: Selected Prose – Essays on Philosophy, Art, and Politics from an Immigrant Poet's Outsider Perspective
― The Life of Images: Selected Prose – Essays on Philosophy, Art, and Politics from an Immigrant Poet's Outsider Perspective
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