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" Mallarme said that everything in the world exists in order to end in a book. Today everything exists to end in a photograph. "

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" It is not altogether wrong to say that there is no such thing as a bad photograph - only less interesting, less relevant, less mysterious ones. "

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" What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine. "

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" I was not looking for my dreams to interpret my life, but rather for my life to interpret my dreams. "

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" The past itself, as historical change continues to accelerate, has become the most surreal of subjects - making it possible... to see a new beauty in what is vanishing. "

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" The aim of all commentary on art now should be to make works of art - and, by analogy, our own experience - more, rather than less, real to us. The function of criticism should be to show how it is what it is, even that it is what it is, rather than to show what it means. "

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" AIDS obliges people to think of sex as having, possibly, the direst consequences: suicide. Or murder. "

" Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to keep on formulating them. "

" The becoming of man is the history of the exhaustion of his possibilities. "

" A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. "

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" Lying is an elementary means of self-defense. "

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" The truth is balance. However the opposite of truth, which is unbalance, may not be a lie. "

" Lying is the most simple form of self-defence. "

" The camera makes everyone a tourist in other people's reality, and eventually in one's own. "

" In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the one who invents it. "

" The truth is always something that is told, not something that is known. If there were no speaking or writing, there would be no truth about anything. There would only be what is. "