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“Can we put aside our training in political correctness and let pain, that inarticulate beast, sound its impossible noise? Can we listen together differently?”
― Julietta Singh, No Archive Will Restore You

“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

“I believe in the future. I think you need to imagine a future and then live in it. I believe in unfathomable quantities of nourishment.”
― Olga Ravn, The Employees

“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