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“Intolerance of ambiguity is the mark of an authoritarian personality.”
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“All language is but a poor translation.”
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“We cannot understand without wanting to understand, that is, without wanting to let something be said...Understanding does not occur when we try to intercept what someone wants to say to us by claiming we already know it.”
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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
“A lie can travel half way around the world while the truth is putting on its shoes.”
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Jake’s 2025 Year in Books
Take a look at Jake’s Year in Books, including some fun facts about their reading.
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Art, Biography, Children's, Classics, Comics, Crime, Fiction, Graphic novels, Historical fiction, History, Horror, Humor and Comedy, Memoir, Non-fiction, Philosophy, Poetry, Psychology, Religion, Science, Science fiction, neuroscience, futurism, disability-studies, mental-health, mental-illness, medicine, and grad-school
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