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" Societies need to have one illness which becomes identified with evil, and attaches blame to its victims. "

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" To take a photograph is to participate in another person's mortality, vulnerability, mutability. Precisely by slicing out this moment and freezing it, all photographs testify to time's relentless melt. "

" AIDS occupies such a large part in our awareness because of what it has been taken to represent. It seems the very model of all the catastrophes privileged populations feel await them. "

" 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. "

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

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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. "

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

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" Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech. "

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" Existence is no more than the precarious attainment of relevance in an intensely mobile flux of past, present, and future. "

" Sanity is a cozy lie. "

" Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. "

" The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. "

" Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt. "

" As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also help people to take possession of space in which they are insecure. "

" 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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" To photograph is to confer importance. "

" 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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