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" Surrealism is a bourgeois disaffection; that its militants thought it universal is only one of the signs that it is typically bourgeois. "

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

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

" Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are. "

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

" To photograph is to confer importance. "

" Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every day, year after year, alone. "

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" It is not the position, but the disposition. "

" Science fiction films are not about science. They are about disaster, which is one of the oldest subjects of art. "

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" Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs. "

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

" 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. "

" 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. "

" Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. "

" So successful has been the camera's role in beautifying the world that photographs, rather than the world, have become the standard of the beautiful. "

" 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. "

" Interpretation is the revenge of the intellectual upon art. "

" 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. "

" Books are funny little portable pieces of thought. "

" Most people in this society who aren't actively mad are, at best, reformed or potential lunatics. "

" Depression is melancholy minus its charms - the animation, the fits. "

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

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

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

" The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured mathematically, and it is independent of persons. "

" I envy paranoids; they actually feel people are paying attention to them. "

" What we need is to use what we have. "

" The only interesting answers are those that destroy the questions. "