Silence remains, inescapably, a form of speech.
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Though collecting quotations could be considered as merely an ironic mimetism -- victimless collecting, as it were. . . in a world that is well on its way to becoming one vast quarry, the collector becomes someone engaged in a pious work of salvage.Susan Sontag
The taste for quotations (and for the juxtaposition of incongruous quotations) is a Surrealist taste.
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Ambition, if it feeds at all, does so on the ambition of others.
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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.
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It is not suffering as such that is most deeply feared but suffering that degrades.
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