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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As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

As photographs give people an imaginary possession of a past that is unreal, they also...

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Pornography is a theatre of types, never of individuals.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.

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

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

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Although none of the rules for becoming more alive is valid, it is healthy to...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

Volume depends precisely on the writer's having been able to sit in a room every...

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

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

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

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

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is an elementary means of self-defense.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

Lying is the most simple form of self-defence.

What we need is to use what we have.

What we need is to use what we have.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

Sanity is a cozy lie.

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

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

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

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

To photograph is to confer importance.

To photograph is to confer importance.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

Travel becomes a strategy for accumulating photographs.

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

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

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

Camp is a vision of the world in terms of style - but a particular...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

In America, the photographer is not simply the person who records the past, but the...

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

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