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" 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. "

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

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" Anything in history or nature that can be described as changing steadily can be seen as heading toward catastrophe. "

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

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

" For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural, death is the obscene mystery, the ultimate affront, the thing that cannot be controlled. It can only be denied. "

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

" The life of the creative man is lead, directed and controlled by boredom. Avoiding boredom is one of our most important purposes. "

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

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" Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others. "

" 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. "

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

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

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

" The ideology of capitalism makes us all into connoisseurs of liberty - of the indefinite expansion of possibility. "

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" My idea of a writer: someone interested in everything. "

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" Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. "

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

" It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades. "

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