"To know the world, one must construct it"

-- Cesare Pavese

#World Quotes #Constructs Quotes

“America is totally under control of the Jews, you know. I mean, look what they're doing in Yugoslavia.”
“Lots of people look up to Billy Martin. That's because he just knocked them down.”
“These beings have no other status, but that of cultivating the idea of beauty in their own persons, of satisfying their passions, of feeling and thinking.... Contrary to what many thoughtless people seem to believe, dandyism is not even an excessive delight in clothes and material elegance. For the perfect dandy, these things are no more than the symbol of the aristocratic superiority of his mind.”
“Chess is a test of wills.”
“I've been collecting photographs since I don't know when, for a long time, for different reasons. You can find them on eBay and when we were browsing through the shops there were images that attracted me. These are all historical images because these days they're all digital. They don't exist anymore.”
“The act of photography is that of phenomenological doubt to the extent that it attempts to approach phenomena from any number of viewpoints.”
“The whole world is there for you. Gifts will happen, but only if you are patient with life itself, the shooting process, and your own limitations.”

Source : Jay Maisel (2014). “Light, Gesture, and Color”, p.1, New Riders
“Russia should support globalization. The Internet can develop in Russia in a very speedy way.”

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