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“I am' includes all that has made me so. It is more than a statement of immediate fact: it is already an explanation, a justification, a demand - it is already autobiographical.”
― John Berger, About Looking

“Instead of one, the only, photograph, there are hundreds. No one, not even the photographer, manages to look at every snap: it would take years. But it doesn't matter, the important thing is to store all these many moments, to keep them safe for the Great Looking, the Grand Viewer who has all the time and attention in the world, more than would fit in any lifetime, and who will draw all that has happened into one line of events. There is no one else to do it.”
― Maria Stepanova, In Memory of Memory

“In the midst of severe pain, I practiced my own death. I died over and over again becoming one with mystery, no boundaries remaining between this form I call my body and the cosmos.”
― Eva Tuschman Leonard, Bodywork

“I have to go back/ to that wet black thing/ dead in the road. I have to turn around./ I must put my face in it.”
― Robin Coste Lewis, Voyage of the Sable Venus and Other Poems