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Life is not significant details, illuminated by a flash, fixed forever. Photographs are.


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A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning.



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What is the most beautiful in virile men is something feminine; what is most beautiful in feminine women is something masculine.



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In place of a hermeneutics we need an erotics of art.



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Surrealism in painting amounted to little more than the contents of a meagerly stocked dream world: a few witty fantasies, mostly wet dreams and agoraphobic nightmares.



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