"How foolish of me to believe that it would be that easy. I had confused the appearance of trees and automobiles, and people with a reality itself, and believed that a photograph of these appearances to be a photograph of it. It is a melancholy truth that I will never be able to photograph it and can only fail. I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection. To photograph reality is to photograph nothing."

-- Duane Michals

#Confused Quotes #Believe Quotes #Reflection Quotes

“Smart people sometimes get stupid, but stupid people never get smart. Never. Ever. 'You can come down the evolutionary ladder,' Chon has observed to Ben and O; 'you can't climb up.”
“You mustnâ€™t give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until theyâ€™re strong enough to run into the woods or fly into a tree. And then to a higher tree and then to the sky.”
“When you are young, hone your craft and write shorter pieces instead of novels, because it's really hard to finish a novel.”
“The question before the advanced nations is not whether they can afford to help the developing nations, but whether they can afford not to do so.”
“When we seek to discover the best in others, we somehow bring out the best in ourselves.”
“There are three times in a man's life when he has the right to yell at the moon-when he marries; when his children come; and when he finishes a job he had to be crazy to start.”
“Where am I and doing what? You might well ask. Freaky chick, you say? You can't imagine. I am priestess of a sandcastle in a land of dust and starlight.”
“I began to have an idea of my life, not as slow shaping of achievement to fit my preconceived purposes, but as the gradual discovery and growth of a purpose which I did not know.”

Source : Marion Milner (2011). “A Life of One's Own”, p.62, Taylor & Francis

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