"You cannot stay on the summit forever; you have to come down again. So why bother in the first place? Just this: What is above knows what is below, but what is below does not know what is above. One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer, but one has seen. There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know."

-- Rene Daumal

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“If you do not want the State to act like a criminal, you must disarm it as you would a criminal; you must keep it weak. The State will always be criminal in proportion to its strength; a weak State will always be as criminal as it can be, or dare be, but if it is kept down to the proper limit of weakness - which, by the way, is a vast deal lower limit than people are led to believe - its criminality may be safely got on with.”
“Music is a means of rapid transportation.”
“Few gynecologists recommend to their heterosexual patients the most foolpoof of solutions, namely, misterectomy.”
“God never meant that man should scale the Heavens By strides of human wisdom. In his works, Though wondrous, he commands us in his word To seek him rather where his mercy shines.”
“Anyone who gets divorced goes through a lot of pain ... I don't think I want to get married again.”
“I want very much to be back in the caul, on my back in the dark forever.”
“Look at people for an example, but then make sure to do things your way. Surround yourself with positive people.”
“The making of a human likeness on film is a political act.”

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

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