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“Everything excellent is as difficult as it is rare.”
― Ethics
― Ethics
“We can easily forgive a child who is afraid of the dark; the real tragedy of life is when men are afraid of the light.”
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“You cannot make yourself feel something you do not feel, but you can make yourself do right in spite of your feelings.”
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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
Yuli’s 2025 Year in Books
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