Clare C.

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“Inspiration is not the exclusive privilege of poets or artists. There is, there has been, there will always be a certain group of people whom inspiration visits. It's made up of all those who've consciously chosen their calling and do their job with love and imagination…Difficulties and setbacks never quell their curiosity. A swarm of new questions emerges from every problem that they solve. Whatever inspiration is, it's born from a continuous 'I don't know.”
― Wisława Szymborska

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“I'm one-time-only to the marrow of my bones.”
― Wislawa Szymborska

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“My apologies to past loves for treating the latest as the first.”
― Szymborska, Wislawa

tags: love

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“I am interested in language because it wounds or seduces me.”
― Roland Barthes, The Pleasure of the Text

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“Ultimately — or at the limit — in order to see a photograph well, it is best to look away or close your eyes. 'The necessary condition for an image is sight,'Janouch told Kafka; and Kafka smiled and replied: 'We photograph things in order to drive them out of our minds. My stories are a way of shutting my eyes.”
― Roland Barthes, Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography

tags: 22, looking, photography

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