The past grows gradually around one, like a placenta for dying.

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Autobiography begins with a sense of being alone. It is an orphan form.

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You can plan events, but if they go according to your plan they are not events.

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Never chain your dogs together with sausages. One must accustom one's self to be bored.

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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.

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What makes photography a strange invention is that its primary raw materials are light and time.

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One can say of language that it is potentially the only human home, the only dwelling place that cannot be hostile to man.

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Nakedness reveals itself. Nudity is placed on display. The nude is condemned to never being naked. Nudity is a form of dress.

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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.

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Modern thought has transferred the spectral character of Death to the notion of time itself. Time has become Death triumphant over all.

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