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“You begin saving the world by saving one man at a time; all else is grandiose romanticism or politics.”
― Women
― Women
“Do not ask who I am and do not ask me to remain the same. More than one person, doubtless like me, writes in order to have no face.”
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“Today everything exists to end in a photograph.”
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“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
“The work of an intellectual is not to mould the political will of others; it is, through the analyses that he does in his own field, to re-examine evidence and assumptions, to shake up habitual ways of working and thinking, to dissipate conventional familiarities, to re-evaluate rules and institutions and to participate in the formation of a political will (where he has his role as citizen to play).”
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Jeanette’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jeanette’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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170 books
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261 books
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804 books
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94 books
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