"The beloved's innocence brutalizes the lover. As the singing of a mad person behind you on the train enrages you, its beautiful animal-like teeth shining amid black planes of paint. As Helen enrages history. Senza uscita."

-- Anne Carson

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“I have received no assurance that anything we can do will eradicate suffering. I think the best results are obtained by people who work quietly away at limited objectives, such as the abolition of the slave trade, or prison reform, or factory acts, or tuberculosis, not by those who think they can achieve universal justice, or health, or peace. I think the art of life consists in tackling each immediate evil as well as we can.”

Source : James Freeman Clarke (1871). “Go up higher; or, Religion in common life (sermons).”, p.28
“The destiny of man is to unite, not to divide.”
“I am truly grateful. I'm a grateful human being.”
“Now I am obsessed with collecting Platypus paraphernalia.”
“I wanted to be able to tell my grandkids one day, "Hey, your grandpa ran into a burning building and survived."”
“If the Bible is mistaken in telling us where we came from, how can we trust it to tell us where we're going ?”
“There is always something to be happy about if we look for it: â€˜Two men looked through prison bars, The one saw mud, the other stars.'”
“The only objective truth that photographs offer is the assertion that somebody or something... was somewhere and took a picture.”

Source : Allan Sekula (1984). “Photography against the grain: essays and photo works, 1973-1983”

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