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Photographs shock insofar as they show something novel.

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To be sure, nobody who really thinks about history can take politics altogether seriously.

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I like to feel dumb. That's how I know there's more in the world than me.

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How much self-love comes in the guise of selfless devotion!

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If one could amputate part of one's consciousness...

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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

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[O]ne person's 'barbarian' is another person's 'just doing what everybody else is doing.

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Self-respect. It would make me lovable. And it's the secret to good sex.

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The painter constructs, the photographer discloses.

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…the war goes on-an ache in the bones, an ache in the gut, an ache in the heart.

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Toda a capacidade de compreender está enraizada na capacidade de dizer não.

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The memory of war, however, like all memory, is mostly local.

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Photographs that depict suffering shouldn't be beautiful, as captions shouldn't moralize.

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It is intolerable to have one's sufferings twinned with anybody else's.

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All aesthetic judgment is really cultural evaluation.

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All great art contains at its center contemplation, a dynamic contemplation.

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Tragedy is a vision of nihilism, a heroic or ennobling vision of nihilism.

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