Why photograph war?
“Why photograph war? Is it possible to put an end to a form of human behavior which has existed throughout history by means of photography? The proportions of that notion seem ridiculously out of balance, yet that very idea has motivated me. For me, the st...
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Flow my tears
“When you love you cease to live for yourself; you live for another person… It overcomes instincts… But why is it good to go against the instinct for self-survival? Because the instinct for survival loses in the end… But if you love you can fade out and...
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Life as a Fugue
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“Then it struck me: supposing I make a film of someone coming along, perfectly realistically, and suddenly opening a door and walking into his childhood? And then opening another door and walking out into reality again? And then walking round the corner of... (展开)The Shadow Who Wished to Become a Man
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Have you ever looked at your shadow? When I was a freshman, I used to look at my shadow the whole time walking back to my dorm late at night—I felt safer with my shadow as my company, knowing that I was not alone. My shadow was constantly shifting into dif... (展开)Why we need literature
“You want perception, you go to a novelist, not a psychiatrist” (164). If journalism is about conveying what is informational, the facts, then literature is about presenting what is experiential, the truth. Journalism presents the cruelties with such aplo...
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Love is like a war; easy to start but hard to end.
"We said there that man's discovery that sexual (genital) love afforded him the strongest experiences of satisfaction, and in fact provided him with the prototype of all happiness, must have suggested to him that he should continue to seek the satisfaction ...
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