"The secret to happiness is to face the fact that the world is horrible."

-- Bertrand Russell

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“When you see someone trying to manoeuvre it round the school gates you have to think, you are a complete idiot.”
“Ideally, if anything [was] any good, it would be indescribable.”
“The historian is, by definition, absolutely incapable of observing the facts which he examines.”

Source : Marc Bloch (1992). “The Historian's Craft”, p.40, Manchester University Press
“I love cleaning the house. I'd never have a cleaner - I wouldn't trust them to do it.”
“Like a ventriloquist who laughs at his dummy's jokes, I keep trying to make photographs that seduce me into believing in the image - all the time knowing better, but believing anyway.”

Source : "At Home With Larry Sultan" by Colleen Kelsey, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 7, 2014.
“In order to conquer, what we need is to dare, still to dare, and always to dare.”
“The biggest mischief in the past century has been perpetrated by Rousseau with his doctrine of the goodness of human nature. The mob and the intellectuals derived from it the vision of a Golden Age which would arrive without fail once the noble human race could act according to its whims.”
“Witchcraft offers the model of a religion of poetry, not theology. It presents metaphors, not doctrines, and leaves open the possibility of reconciliation of science and religion, of many ways of knowing.”

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